What if capitalism creates objective conditions -- socialized forces of production -- of its transcendence but, by doing so, destroys subjective conditions -- thinking human beings capable of collective action -- for it?
Chris Hedges, whose article Carrol just posted here, notes: "There is a fascinating rage -- and rage is the right word -- expressed by many on the left in this fine film about Nader" ("Pariah or Prophet?" 26 Feb 2007, <http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070226_an_unreasonably_principled_man/>).
In a country where self-identified _leftists_ burn with a rage against a man who proposes merely a sensible social democratic program and do all they can to exclude him from ballots, there are no subjective conditions for "the transcendence of the epoch." To think otherwise is an illusion. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>