marxism on wgn-fm

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 19 08:20:11 PST 2001


Justin Schwartz wrote:


>I mean, at a certain point, the numbers game gets ridiculous. The
>body count of Stalinsim was unspeakable, and condemns it foreover.
>But Stalinism is gone. The body count of capitalism is higher and,
>since capitalism is still here, growing. If Stalinism was
>unacceptable because of its victims, why is capitalism acceptable
>despite its dead? That is a rhetorical question.

In standard ideology, capitalism's deaths are aberrations or excesses, departures from the liberal ideal, while Communism's deaths emerge right from the pages of the Manifesto.

Doug



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