On Nov 16, 2007 11:21 AM, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doyle; > Maddening isn't it? Being from the catastrophist camp watching them > spot recession and get away with it has been difficult to endure. The > defeat of that sense of crisis impending has been hard. I was reading > in the Grundrisse recently about how Marx gave up after 1848 slowly, > but recognized pipe dreams before a lot of the left did. And for a > long long time expected nothing to happen in his lifetime. I think > your point then is well taken. We need practical sound thinking not > pipe dreams. Then when one says well it won't be anymore difficult > this time than before, and see if that turns out to be true is > realistic. Which after all is why Marxist are supposed to be realists. > thanks, > Doyle Saylor >
Hey that's because you are from the "reality-based community." In the action-based community you create your own reality. -raghu.