>You seem to assume the working class is a unitary thing with
>self-identical interests, and that once "it" takes power, all
>internal contradictions are resolved. But the working class - the one
>existing in the world, not the one playing the hero role in the heads
>of revolutionaries - is complex and divided, and likely to remain so
>(and many members of the working class would oppose your revolution).
>I used to think Foucault was unfair when he said Marxism dreamt of an
>end to history; now I'm pretty convinced he was right.
As Marshall Sahlins said, "when Foucault speaks of a war of each against all, and in the next breath even hints of a Christian divided self -- 'And there is always within each of us something that fights something else' -- we are tempted to believe that he and Hobbes have more in common than the fact that, with the exception of Hobbes, both were bald" ("Waiting for Foucault," pp.37-38).
Really, your concern is unfounded; with all the oatmeal-cookie-cutter empiricism & individualism of the American Left, there is no end to the history of defeats & retreats in a foreseeable future.
small is not beautiful,
Yoshie