[lbo-talk] Chris Hedges comes out as socialist

[Carrol Cox]

Currently I'm paying a grad student $18 an hour to read to me March,
Moishe Postone's _Time, Labor, and Social Domination_, i.e., I'm paying
a bit over $1 a page. I think it's going to be money well spent (and I
would suggest that anyone who values the _Grundrisse_ owes it to
him/herself to get Postone's book and read it). Both implicit and
explicit in Marx as Postone interprets his work is that socialism
represents not the realization of the working class but the abolition of
the working class, and that the essence of capitalism is NOT private
property plus the market, and that it cannot be transcended by merely
abolishing private proprty and the market but that the industrial
organization of production must be eliminated. But I've just begun to
get a glimse of his argument so this is a really crude beginning even
for a summary.

Carrol

Matthias Wasser wrote:
> 
> I think at this point it might be easier to describe whom "socialist"
> doesn't include.
> 
> I was arguing with a fellow some time ago who insisted that Barack
> Obama was a socialist. I asked him to define his terms, and he said
> that socialism is "the redistribution of wealth." "By that
> definition," says I, "every society to ever exist has been socialist!"
> He nodded his head, smiling stupidly.
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