The second line was meant to be ironic.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/13/2013 7:15 PM, Perelman, Michael wrote:
>
>
> > Not off the table at all.  Real reforms can help to create a belief that
> anti-capitalists can accomplish something.  Marx supported unions even
> though he knew that the could never win any ultimate victories, but the
> hopeless battles could create a sense of solidarity that could help the
> cause succeed.
>
> >> I agree with Tom.  Limited victories on matters such as the working
> >> day and other reforms can provide fuel for organizing.  Or are we
> >> supposed to wait for everybody to get screwed over so much that they
> >> all rise up in unison & create a socialist utopia overnight.
>
> ==============
>
> I was responding to the second sentence in your post, which seemed  to
> play on yet another variation of the trope of the big bang approach to
> social change; the mirror image of the capitalist fantasy in the wake of
> the implosion of the USSR.
>
> E.
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