Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Carrol Cox wrote:
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> >I am puzzled that there could be any question about this. Clear U.S.
> >hegemony is an unmitigated disaster for the human species. (Doug himself
> >has often noted that the fall of the FSU was a disaster for the world.)
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> Yup, still think that. But I was thinking Pax Americana (which was,
> of course, never very peaceful) vs. the run-up to WW I.
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> >Doug has argued for a
> >gradualist achievement of socialism. That is a daydream
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> ...and its sudden revolutionary achievement is what, hard-headed realism?
>
No. Unless you call leaping from the third floor of a burning building hoping to hit soft soil below is hard-headed realism. It's quite unlikely. Other possibilities are all certain disaster.
I've said this over and over. All hopes are pretty unrealistic, but the hope for revolution is only wildly improbable, not wholly empty as is the hope for gradualism. Why do you insist time after time at making the same smart-alec (and by this time lying) response on this topic?
Carrol
> Doug