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any case, the notion that "feasible" visions of socialism is the world is
waiting for certainly does appear "utopian" to me. It is the same vision
that Schweickart, Pat Devine, Cockshott-Cottrell and Hahnel-Albert share.
Each is vying with the other to present a model that works on all planes:
economic, political and ethical. The problem, however, is that class
struggle will dictate the contours of a new socialism, not excellent
working models. >>
This is trivially true, but what does it tell us? That we should just stop thinking past the next demonstration because whatever emerges out of the clss strugfgle is whatever will emerge and no amount of thinking can change that? Of course that is true. But there may not be class struggle, or of a kind or in a direction we would like, if the working class has no raeson to suppose it can do better than what we have or what they had in Russia.
--jks