[lbo-talk] Social Democracy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 28 16:09:29 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>I have never seen on this list a single concrete suggestion as to how
>social democratic goals can be achieved. It seems that the only argument
>they have is that commumism won't work. But disproving Zeus doesn't
>demonstrate Shiva's existence. Put differently, social democracy is
>parasitic on revolutionary socialism, and without a revolutionary threat
>social democrats are so many bits of old lavender.

I have never seen on this list a single concrete suggestion as to how revolutionary socialism can be achieved. It seems that the only argument you have is that social democracy is unachievable. But disproving Shiva doesn't demonstrate Zeus's existence. Put differently, revolutionary socialism is parasitic on history and fantasy, and without a revolutionary movement revolutionary socialists are so many bits of surplus bile.

Doug



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