Tom Walker Monday, July 30, 2012 10:17 PM Cool Quote
"Entirely exceptional conditions, independent of the will of persons and
parties, are necessary..."
And sometimes, not even then... On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Chuck
Grimes wrote: [clip]
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Tom's posts are often too elliptical for me, but if I understand what he is
saying here, I agree. More generally (and more prosaically) we really cannot
predict the future (Mao: "Marxists have no crystal ball"; Sweezy: "Present
as history"). Even under exceptional conditions we* may well lose, but that
is no reason not to struggle.
Carrol
*"We": Substitute the category of your own preference: working class, the
prevariacat, humanity, freedom-loving peoples, Marxists, whatever. One
exception: "prgressives"; belief in progress is pro-capitalist.
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