[lbo-talk] Sam Gindin, ON THE REVIVAL OF THE WORKING CLASS

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Wed Dec 16 07:37:19 PST 2009


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Sam Gindin is terrific.
>
> "The point however of emphasizing ‘class’ is to get at a shared social relationship within capitalism that cuts across and potentially bridges other oppressions."

It this is to be judged "terrific", isn't it necessary to explain why "class" hasn't worked, as Marx claimed it would, to develop the degree of enlightenment required to imagine and create socialism and why, in spite of this, it might do so in the future?

I take it, by the way, that you don't judge Zizek's alternative idea of the world's slums as the likely future source of the required revolutionary practice as "terrific".

Ted



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