----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> For a couple years on several different lists Doug kept demanding
that
> "leninists" provide him a scenario for revolution, and more or less
took
> the absence of such a scenario to be a confession of the
impossibility
> of revolution. That despite the fact that there have been quite a
few
> revolutions or near revolutions in nations with modern armies and
state
> structure in the last 50 years.
>
> The Multitude, on the other hand, seems to exist only in the
writings of
> Negri and his folowers. And yet we are seemingly to take on faith
that
> this metaphysical entity will in some wholly unknown way transform
the
> world in the next 50 years. (If it takes much longer there won't be
much
> of a world left to transform.)
>
> Carrol
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Of course, class-in-itself and class-for-itself aren't metaphysical entities............
Ian