[lbo-talk] Progress

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Thu Nov 6 11:36:46 PST 2008


i wonder if Marx would have seen this election as progress, which is what i thought we were talking about: political progress. not technological. not economic. political progress.

would voting for obama actually be seen as progress -- by Marx?

At 02:22 PM 11/6/2008, James Heartfield wrote:
>Doug writes "If it weren't for such "Progress" you'd be dead by now, right?"
>
>Or more likely, never have been born. In 1750 there were 800 million
>humans on the planet, today there are 6 billion. Without improvements on
>agricultural and industrial output that go under then name 'progress' more
>than five sixths of us would never have been born.
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