"Carrol Cox" <[email protected]> wrote: > The concept of "intermediate steps" is simply an expression the Idea of > Progress -- which is at the very core of capitalist ideology.
I don't think there is a capitalist ideology. Capitalism originated as emergent property of the mercantile economy without anyone proposing it as an economic system. > There is no ratchet effect in history. I think we see that all the time with science and technical advances. But, many advances in society can be rescinded. > This does _not_ mean that the struggle for reforms" (e.g., " reducing the > amount of > surplus value that goes to capital") is not essential; it does mean that such > reforms > do not advance us one step towards socialism but _merely_ buttress the > potential > strength of the working class -- or, more precisely, head off the reduction > of workers > to one level mass of wretches incapable of any higher struggle. How will we recognize when we have attained socialism? Or, is socialism a moving target? -- Ron
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