Doug Henwood wrote:
> . He found the teleological aspects of
> Marxism entirely consistent with his earlier Christian views; the only
> difference was that the redemption would be on earth rather than in heaven.
One of the reasons I always react so negatively to demands for a picture of what socialism will be like or for evidence that it will work is my strong distaste for these sorts of marxism. The problem is that even if the most sanguine projections of socialist joy work out, it will be something only our great great grandchildren will enjoy. The role the projection of a classless future performs is not as a goal of struggle but as a perspective on and way of understanding the present. (Ollman is good on this.)
The goal of struggle (the motives) must be found in the present, not in the future.
Carrol