I'm kind of curious as to how Ted knows this. Did he spend a lot of time in pre-Revolutionary Russia hanging out with peasants?
--- On Fri, 1/2/09, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: SA <s11131978 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] they don't make mega-bears like they used to
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 1:23 PM
> Ted Winslow wrote:
>
> > The Russian "revolution" did not create,
> and could not have created, a "socialist" society
> in Marx's sense. It was not the outcome of a
> "revolutionary praxis" initiated and carried out
> by individuals with the required developed degree of
> "free individuality", and it did not create a
> society from which all barriers to full human development
> had been removed. Marx's 1881 surmises about the
> consistency of conditions in the Russian peasant commune
> with those required to develop the required degree of
> "free individuality" were mistaken.
>
> Who has (or has had) the requisite degree of free
> individuality to create a socialist society then? How would
> one know when that point has been reached?
>
> SA
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