> And yet the empirical data on the fundamental indicators of human
> well-being: infant mortality, nutrition, life expectancy, etc also show
> significant improvement during the same time. Better to have an idea of
> "progress" which is dialectical and class-conscious --- i.e.
> multidimensional and encompassing paradox --- rather than discarding the
> idea of progress altogether, methinks.
True progress requires a Marxist Leninist vanguard. No vanguard, no progress. :-)
Ulhas