I would add that the official theory and practice of mechanical immoralist Marxism kept some potential marchers off the the streets.
J. D.
Carrol wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Nietzsche
james daly wrote:
: >
: > I only used "Marxism" because it was
: > being used in the thread. I prefer "Marx's thought" which Marxism isn't
: > always.
:
: This is tricky. "Marx's thought" is a merely ink&paper except insofar as
: it is enacted in living bodies -- most if not all of whom probably call
: themselves "Marxists," adherents of "Marxism."
:
: But it is trickier yet. If there is a revolution, most of the marchers
: in the streets during the months and weeks before the generals begin to
: doubt the loyalty of their troops -- most of those marchers will never
: have read a word of Marx or have the slightest idea what "critique of
: political economy" or "commodity fetishism" mean. And yet those marchers
: will be the only real existence of "Marx's thought," and if those
: marchers never appear, then Marx's thought will be dead.
:
: And neither "Marx's thought" nor "Marxism" is a movement. The name of
: the movement is socialism.
:
: Carrol
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