Anarchism / Marxism debates

[Carl Remick]

> That was exactly the point of what I was saying - our old friend 
> non-reformist reforms. And I thought I said exactly how it'd work - 
> parties, unions, and other organizations in relentless struggle, with 
> a friendly media chronicling, criticizing, and promoting their work. 
> I don't think there's any great mystery to it. What I find utterly 
> mysterious are the calls for revolution that seem to treat all the 
> difficulties of this path as resulting mainly from a failure of 
> nerve, and seem to treat all the (fundamentally conservative) 
> psychological and institutional complexities of today as obstacles 
> that will simply disappear in some magic transformation.

A friendly media?  Ha!  That in itself would require a revolution.

Carl