Vietnam's (meager) resources

Carrol Cox cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
Tue Jun 2 16:02:51 PDT 1998


Doug writes:
>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >It is devishly difficult to keep a discussion of race going on these lists.
>
> I beg to differ. Race & its relation to class seems to have been one of the
> staples of discussion in lbo-talk's first month of life. Which is exactly
> the kind of thing I was hoping for - the abortion discussion too.
[SNIP]
> And stay up all night
> every night discussing
> race and class..."

Yes and no. There have been some very long threads on race and class. But your appended Communist Love Song is an appropriate comment on those threads: they tend to go around in a circle endlessly, a circle which does not incorporate new material with each spin of the wheel*, but merely restate the general point (which I then stated again in my post). When I say it's devilishly difficult, I mean it is difficult to get the discussion to go much beyond this reaffirmation of what I believe has been established as a truism, but...

How do we move that discussion forward beyond that truism?

Carrol

P.S. My parenthesis about "each spin of the wheel" reflects my huge admiration for the first 125 pages of Volume 2 of *Capital*, pages which go round and round reasserting a tautology, but with each reassertion incorporating more of the "feel" of the capitalist dynamic.



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