[lbo-talk] WBAI scores with holocaust denalist's premium

[Mike Ballard]

> Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
>> This has puzzled me for years now: like Chris, I see no meaningful
>> distinction between a society genuinely based on Marxist principles
>> and an anarchist society.  No state, activities and groups based
>> on mutual benefit and cooperation, no wage exploitation, no
>> "property rights"--how does this Marxist dream differ from Chuck's
>> anarchist utopia?
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Both Marx and Bakunin called themselves socialists because a classless 
(thus State-less) society was their strategic goal.  Marx wrote CAPITAL
and Bakunin translated it into Russian; so at least among some
revolutionaries, there was an idea of just what kind of
political-economy it was, which was to be transcended.  A lot of this
critique political-economy and common understanding of socialism was
displaced by "realists" in the 20th Century.  As has been pointed out,
the tactics of how one gets to a communist society are where socialists
tend to differ.    

Best,
Mike B)

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