Reparations -- Yes? (was Re: Joy In Horowitzville)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 22 11:15:28 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>A revolutionary movement to abolish capitalism & establish socialism
>can only emerge out of the foundation of militant movements for
>reforms. One can't conjure up revolution out of nothing. So,
>building up militant movements for reforms is the first task at this
>point.

How can you build such movements if you tell them that nothing good can really happen until the magic moment of systemic transformation, about which we can say nothing?

Doug



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