On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
>> --- On Wed, 11/5/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>>
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>>>
>>> Don't you think Marx believed in progress in some
>>> sense?
>
>
> The "some sense" is an important qualification. He doesn't
> seem to have believed in the kind of Whig idea of linear
> progress -- each stage an "improvement" on the last --
> that most of our contemporary Pwogwessives continue
> to hold.
Well yes, but a Coxian sacrifice of any sort of optimism means the death of any kind of transformative politics.
Doug