The coming Glorious Revolution

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 2 14:54:16 PDT 2001


Brad Mayer wrote:


>A bit dated by a few years, but still sounding fresh. Especially
>refreshing is its clear, public voice, free of the annoying
>encumbrances of postmodern/poststructuralist discourse. I am
>especially in accord with the historical sequence: the Russian
>Revolution was our Cromwellian Puritan Revolution, the next
>revolutionary wave will bring us our own Glorious Revolution, when
>at last the way forward for post-capitalist development will be
>decisively opened up on the world scale, once and for all, forever.
>
>But first to sweep some cold war liberal rubbish out of the way...

Right. And if it weren't for Jacques Derrida, the revolutionary moment would already have arrived!

Doug



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