Marxism as Theory and movement

eric dorkin eric_dorkin at yahoo.com
Fri May 10 10:58:16 PDT 2002


I thought that capitalism was inevitable, just not the final point of scoial equilibrium. Moreover, I though that it was not final because of the ever strengthing class strife between Capitalists and Proletaria. And that a no class strata society would be final. my bad.

Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: Eric Dorkin wrote: Help me out here, and I am not being a smart ass. But, isn't the point behind "marxism" that it is inevitable? And if so, isn;t the issue a matter or "when," not "if?"

No. Ever heard the phrase "socialism or barbarism," or from the Communist Manifesto: "mutual ruin of the contending classes." Or Gramsci, "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." Capitalism was itself not inevitable: the assumption that it is/was is derivative from the metaphysical concept of Progress, a core bourgeois illusion.

Carrol

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