[lbo-talk] A different "last" generation

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Feb 17 18:50:57 PST 2006


joanna wrote:
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> And then consider that, for them, the possibility of socialism, while
> theoretically desireable, will not affect their lives as much as it
> would that of adolescents who are poor and hungry and who cannot afford
> to get dental care. So, the issue does not seem very pressing.

Socialism is not going to directly help anyone right now. The struggle for it must come not out of the goodies that socialism will give but out of the fight to change the world now, within capitalism. The importance of the socialist 'promise' is not its promise as an award but its illumination of the present, since the present can only be understood from the perspective of the future, as the ape could only be understood from the perspective of the human. (Grundrisse)

Carrol



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