[lbo-talk] Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

At 05:58 PM 7/12/2007, you wrote:
>If we are talking about a socialist society, enormous 'things' would
>have happened between now and then, and the people living in that
>society would be people constituted by the social relations through
>which those things were brought about. It simply makes no sense to argue
>about what the motives of people under those conditions would be. They
>wouldn't be either better or worse people, they would simply be
>different. Parents in the 18th c.  would beat the hell out of their kids
>and no one, kids or parents, thought much about it. One can go on
>indefinitely listing such examples.
>
>Carrol

i agree with you, but the point of dealing with feminist and other issues 
NOW is that it's not going to magically happen over night, either. It'll 
take awhile, perhaps a long time, and it's in that window where the 
possibility that a new sexist, racist, etc. regime might possibly flourish 
and threaten such a transition. Hence, the argument that part of getting 
there means dealing with those issues, now. I think one of the most 
compelling discussions of this is Marx's writings on the Paris Commune 
where he talks about the old practices and social institutions that helped 
pave the way for the commune.

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