[lbo-talk] Rousseau v. Marx

[Eubulides]

Chuck Grimes wrote:
> Put antoher way, ravi follows Rousseau rather than Marx - as the
> Hungarian philosopher, Gspar Miklos Tamas, argues in "Telling the
> truth about class":
> 
> ``The main difference between Rousseau and Marx is that Rousseau seeks
> to replace (stratified, hierarchical, dominated) society with the
> people (a purely egalitarian and culturally self-sustaining, closed
> community), while Marx does not want to 'replace' society by
> annihilating 'rule' and the ruling class as such, but believes that
> capitalism (one specific kind of society) might end in a way in which
> one of its fundamental classes, the proletariat, would abolish itself
> and thereby abolish capitalism itself.''  [quoted, Carrol Cox]
> 
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> 
> This is a pretty good post. I am not sure what it was doing under its
> former thread, so I changed the subject line. 

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I'd type the quote but it's bathtime for little Guido so:

http://tiny.cc/yj7CW

Last paragraph from chapter 5 of Cohen's KM's Theory of History: A Defense

if the url doesn't work googlebooks the thing