What is to be done.

[Michael Cohen]

I think the Leninist question is the important one.
I personally think the  Marxist doctrine of inevitability
is the weakest link in the story and is in large measure wishful thinking.
I know of no social system that has ever been established
which doesn't seem to suffer from enormous contradictions in practise.
Its human docility and force of arms at bottom which has made
each of the established exploitative systems function.

The question is how can people with limited power and
limited organize mass-based politics which will better
the lives of the entire population in the long term and will
not simply exchange one type of plunder for another.

                 --mike
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