CB:
> Affirmative action exactly in the direction of abolishing classes. "Reverse discrimination" would be a right wing way of describing it, and it sort of robs them of the good credit they should get on exactly moving to classnessless: affirmative action for peasants.
Umm - this was irony Charles. I was comparing Joannas complaint to that made against affirmative action.
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>CB: What version of the transitional phase called socialism are you using ? Marx's discussion of this says the socialist phase will likely still bear the marks of the old capitalist society in it for a long while, which it would seem likely to include "social mobility".
If you still have classes it is not socialism.... I don't care how early. (Well maybe not the first month). Socialism that has existed for any length of time had better be a classless society. If not, it is not
socialism.
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