Capitalism's Triumph

[Justin Schwartz]

><< 'Popular Marxism' took Marx's more prophetic writings on the fate of
>capitalism, without noting that Marx had not given a timescale. If 
>socialism
>is destined to usurp capitalism, but the transition period could last many
>hundreds of years, as the transitions between previous modes of production
>like feudalism and capitalism had lasted, then the prediction is not 
>entirely
>helpful.  >>
>
>Then why all that talk about the Revolution in Engels's eulogy for Marx?

Well, there were revolutions during that transition too, and it still took 
hundreds of yeras . . . . . The English Revolution, 1640-58; the Anerican 
Revolution, 1776-79, the French Revolution, 1787-92; the US Civil War, 
1860-65, and others. jks

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