Euell Gibbons valuable, but Grundrisse irrelevant? Nuts.
As for your example of socio-economic options: Do you think Cuba would have lasted 6 months without the victory of the Russian Revolution? You think the Venezuelan struggle would have made it this far if oil prices were anywhere close to the actual costs of production? Would not have. Guess what? Lenin read Marx, and studied Hegel. Trotsky reports, as president of the Petrograd Soviet, on the sophistication of the Russian workers, their understanding of Marx and their eagerness for "theory." We are not quite that close to the end of "hydrocarbon industrial civilization" that predictions of imminent apocalypse will replace good old fashioned class struggle, much less galvanize millions to action. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Kucinich's wife and the American Monetary Institute
