Waistline: "What is lacking is the subjective understanding of the moment. We are still trying to advance on the basis of formulations and doctrine of the past period and they are useless today."
DG: I wish it was like this and we could pass to a higher civilisation than capitalism without any reorganisation of production, distribution etc. But transitions in history do not work like that. I do not deny the fact that the more a society is advanced the shorter may be the transition. I do not think that we can jump over the transitory period (how long or short it may be) because we will not be the only agents on the scene. I agree with you that objective conditions for a transition are more than ripe. But what about the subjective requirements. Even then if th esubjective criteria are met what do we know about the coming civilisation except our experiences in utopian experiments in 19th century and in socialist coutries in 20th century we do not know what is going to come. We will therefore invent a lot to pass to a higher civilisation. DG _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
