Max Weber: the "Iron Cage" & the Commercialization Model

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Fri Dec 8 09:10:49 PST 2000



>>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 12/07/00 09:30PM >>>I like Carrol's attitude better: "We don't live in the socialist
world today because our Enemies have been too strong & we have not been able to vanquish Them yet. However, the present affairs in no way prove that Marx's theory was entirely incorrect; nor does it constitute evidence that humanity will never experience universal social emancipation. History is a matter of contingent evolution, and only within the contingency of historical evolution may we seek to understand laws, tendencies, historical necessities, etc. 'What is?' 'Struggle,' said the Old Man, and he was right. Let's slog it out!"

((((((((((

CB: Yes, struggle and theory, we have to have a theoretical understanding of laws, tendencies and historical necessities guiding our action. As Lenin said, without revolutionary theory , there is no revolutionary movement.



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list