preaching, waiting

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Feb 19 08:46:21 PST 2001



>An excerpt from Adolph Reed's intro to Race, Monthly Review Press's
>abridged version of Oliver Cromwell Cox's Caste, Class, and Race,
>reprinted in the Feburary MR:
>
>"I suspect that the limitation of his strategic vision was
>reinforced by the combination of his teleological faith in
>capitalism's inevitable replacement by socialism and an apocalyptic
>ntion of revolution as the mechanism of millennial change. If the
>script is already written and a quantum leap is the sole necessary
>and sufficient condition for its realization, then there is little
>need to puzzle over how to get there from here. The only warrant is
>to preach the gospel and wait for enlightened adherents."

So, what's Adolph Reed's plan of "getting there from here"? The Labor Party???

Yoshie



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