The following article, by Istvan Meszaros, is copied from the Socialist
Register listserve. The title as stated in that list is, "Communism Is No
Utopia."
Best wishes,
Jim Lawler
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Is Communism a utopia? The answer to the question depends on what we
mean by communism and w
Meszaros says that communism concerns control and asks:
> what sort of control? In the past it was assumed that political control would do
It was not political control that was at the heart of Communism but
the control of the means of poduction, short and simple. Communism is
effectively about p
Going back to the original article Meszaros says:
> freedom is not something that simply falls out of the sky and hits us,
> and then everything is all right. It is a very complex social
> transformation, and at the same time involves a certain conception of
> humanity and its conditions of existe
Simon,
How can we demonstrate the 'state of nature' prior to
the revolution?
How do you negate the capitalist worldview scientifically? Surely to
delete capitalism from the make-up of the world always ends-up
looking like a previous stage in history as that is the only basis of
comparison. T
