[lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>... such a belief [in revolution] continued to be rational through,
>probably, at least World War II, when workers'
>movements and revolutionary aspirations were fairly
>vibrant and capitalism seemed not only to have
>collapsed into self-destructive barbarism at least
>twice, but also to have spectacularly failed in the
>Depression at a time when (or so it them seemed) the
>Soviet Union, even though it was a ghastly parody of
>what socialism hoped to be, showed the world that
>There Is An Alternative. It is only looking back, like
>Owl of Minerva that flies only at twilight, that it
>seems that those hopes were delusive, at least for the
>20th century -- well, _were_ delusive for the 20th
>century. You can draw your own line about when became
>manifest. That it's manifest _now_ is hard for s
>sensible person to deny, I think.

What is manifest now is that capitalism is failing of it's own global 
success.  I think there is no chance capitalism will survive the 21st 
century.

The following column that I cited here recently does an an excellent job 
summarizing capitalism's current extreme vulnerability and accelerating 
instability:  
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2018451,00.html>

Carl

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