[lbo-talk] Political Action &/or Revolution was State and Capitalism

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Wed Mar 12 16:01:30 PDT 2008


Carrol wrote:

Discussion of revolution or of mass movements for reform within capitalism (and as I have said the latter is a precondition for the emergence of the former) no particular reference to Marx or Marxism is necessary. In any case, assuming hypothetically that a revolution occurs, only a small percentage of the participants in that revolution will be marxists, and only a slightly larger percentage will have been in any way conscious revolutionaries prior to discovering themselves involved in such a process. Hence for such purposes discussion of money, details (or even most large features) etc of socialist society are totally irrelevant. ********************

So, don't go and read anything Marx wrote or take it seriously because he discusses such things and implies them in his critique of poltical-economy. Don't try to understand what it is you're dealing with in terms of this class dominated system or what the content of a social revolution should be about because revolutions are never made by the oppressed thinking for themselves. Just listen to Carrol's leadership, to his immediate demands to stop paying attention to the reforms promised by the Democratic Party. That's fundamental, right?

Or maybe it's... organize realistically for reform until the day comes (a la Eublides) when we are able to genetically engineer our mutation into otters who don't need money or dental care.

Mike B)

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