I've always thought that Carrol's theory of revolution has a distinctly negative theological bent to it, the revolution makes itself felt through its very unknowability. As to its value, well it seemed to have kept some protestants entertained for a while.
Personally, I find all of this unknowability a bit daft. Keep in mind, I don't think that utopian thought can adequately forecast political change, but it does point to the possibilities of radical transformation in the here and now. Capitalism is made productive precisely through this crisis. It constantly produces new conditions for collectivity and resistance, and couldn't survive without them. This is what Bloch called the novum and what Benjamin called a weak messianic trace. But then again, I'm a Spinozist and not a Calvinist. robert wood
> Ok, lemme see if I've got the capsule version of Cox thought. The
> future bears no relation to the present. Most of us wouldn't like to
> live there anyway. And nothing we can do or say can hasten its
> arrival. I'd say that you make revolutionary politics sound somewhere
> between tedious and repulsive, but of course that doesn't matter
> either. Why fucking bother?
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> Doug
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