> . . .
> Under conditions in which his opinion on the Tobin Tax might be of the
> slightest interest, being interested in it would constitute a more or
> less deliberate decision to block an impending revolution.
I don't know how this tax has to be blown up to such a great assault on capital. It's just a friggin tax, not necessarily a high one. Not a big deal.
but I do see your point, in light of the impending revolution.
>
> In either case, it is an absurd question for progressives, whether
> revolutionaries or structural reformists, to be arguing about.
>
> Max, in fact, day dreams of a working class so powerful that socialist
> revolutin would indeed be a practical possibility or even probability,
> and what does he want the Working Class to do with all that power?
> Demand cleaner restrooms I guess, and perhaps hand out timid suggestions
> that perhaps white workers would, please, stop whooping it up for the
> legal lynching of blacks and homosexuals.
So I'm simultaneously for demands that are too hard and too easy. Tobin tax and cleaner restrooms. No wonder I'm so confused.
I will ignore the slur on white workers.
>
> Max really does think his proposals are practical. He just can't see
> that there is no way the working class as he conceives it can *ever*
> achieve the power for his particular goals, and that a working class
> that *could* achieve such power would have much more useful ways to
> exercise it. W.H. Auden got such liberals as Max and Chris down exactly
> in his *For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio*.
> . . .
There's an enduring political voice for us all. W.H. Auden.
I recall that Eliot, Yeats, and Pound didn't like liberals either.
MBS