On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> But more importantly. You don't know, I don't know, and Albert
> doesn't
> know what people will and will not "want" under the radically changed
> conditions of a socialist society emerging from the chaos of
> capitalism
> in its death agonies. (And that is the only kind of capitalism that
> will
> precede any socialist society.)
Ah the death agony of capitalism, one of Leon T's less fortunate moments. If we're going to rely on that, forget about it. It's just as likely that such a death agony - if it happened - could result in some horrific authoritarian transformation as a desirable one. If that's your theory of how we get from here to there, we might as well give up. We have to work with what we've got, and humanizing the present system seems a lot more promising than your sort of black magic.
Doug