On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By any serious conception of socialism I know of (which involves worker > state power this is not even a tiny step towards socialism. For that > matter, it is highly doubtful that socialism is approached "by steps." > The whole business of steps twoards this and that is an illusion created > by the ideology of "Progress" -- movement along a fixed path.
You mean like the "Enlightenment narrative of Progress" as the much-reviled post-modernists call it? http://books.google.com/books?id=Ww-bt86wVQUC I thought Marxism embraces this idea of Progress more than any other ideology. Only in that light, can we make sense of the idea that societies "evolve" from Feudalism -> Capitalism -> Socialism. Am I getting this completely wrong? -raghu. -- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." - Steven Wright _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
