Bears & Crashes

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Why prepare to end the exploitation one class by another if class society 
need not proceed through crises, international discord, catastrophes,
breakdown and political counter-revolutions? Moreover,  it can only be
through compulsion--an objective contradiction between the forces and
relations of production-- that we can reasonably expect ourselves to
struggle to achieve a truly free association of producers , from the
perspective of which the present class society  will seem dismal even at
its most prosperous and reformed. 

For us to hope for no better than trade unionism and the reinstatement of
structural keynesianism--and thus to delay recognition of the need now in
the face of the manifest limits of the mixed economy to develop patiently
an opposition open to revolutionary goals and tactics: this obstructionism
is the goal of all leftists who are witting and unwitting accomplices of
capital. And I think this about the left in my brighter and darker
moments.

Which is not to say Bill F that you seem to be absolutely correct about
the Pinker over-reach about a genetically specified language capacity. 

Yours, Rakesh