> >CB: No, no, Justin, I'm the one wishing in this thread. I'm putting forth a >utopian socialism. Engels has turned into his opposite.
Charles, I didn't know you had it in you. > >But seriously, I only meant that because Marxism is true, it has a tendency >to fulfill itself. But there can be countervailing influences to this >tendency. How this struggle will come out in the end is difficult to say. >But I don't think you can count out a revival of Marxism, because its >truths are confirmed everyday, say in Argentina. I mean the people in >Argentina may be foreclosed from becoming Marxists or communists en masse >today because of the specific anti-communist institutions that capitalism >has built up in response to the SU and the first wave of socialist >revolutions. But what about an Argentine depression in the next generation >, when anti-communist institutions have faded, and people have no >anti-communist trends like today. Didn't someone say something about what happens when history repeats itself the second time? >Marxism will seem like an amazinginly accurate description of what is >happening to them. So, it is hard to count out Marxist revival forever , as >you do. I think what is novel in my position is that I do not deny the substantial truth content of historical materialism; but the truth may not be enough. Someone also said something about the philosophers merely interpreting the world in various way. jks _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
