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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

There are many reforms that you can win even under capitalism (& some 
of them have been already won!).  We can't abolish exploitation & all 
oppressions while we remain under capitalism, though.

Yoshie