Socialism must be democracy

Nasreen Karim karim at rnet.com
Tue Mar 28 22:28:59 PST 2000


I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE Manjur


> 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.
>
> Doug
>



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