Mobility in "socialist" eastern europ

Gar Lipow lipowg at sprintmail.com
Tue Apr 16 21:37:38 PDT 2002


On: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:10:21 -0400 "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> typed Subject: Mobility in "socialist" eastern europ

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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