[lbo-talk] Socialism v. Liberalism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jan 27 07:45:47 PST 2006


info at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
> At 06:50 PM 1/26/2006, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
> >Charles Brown writes:
> > >... exploited and oppressed people
> > >inevitably struggle against their exploitation and oppression...
> >
> >Yeah, so there's always past struggle (practice) to analyze, i.e. do theory
> >from. I mean at first we hit out without theory, or even a theory that
> >theory
> >is required. Then, not having won, or not having won completely, we analyze
> >what went wrong, analyze our experience of struggle. So I'd say struggle
> >precedes theory, as well as being a product of it.
>
> I'm curious what examples you're thinking of.
>

The following answer to your question is partly flip and partly quite serious: Every second of every day of every human being for the last 100,000 years.

We are always already acting -- as inidividuals and as a species, from which our thinking emerges.

Carrol



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