>>> 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!"
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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.