[lbo-talk] left aiding right

[Carrol Cox]

When Rosa Luxemburg coined her slogan, "socialism or b arbarism," she
did so in the context of her conviction that Contingency ruled history,
that one was in fact as likely as the other.

The idea of Progress, the silly squabbles between mainstream left and
right, the excessive concern of would-be radicals (socialists) with the
right (when there is no imminent danger of a rightist coup) are simply
ways of avoiding history, of singing past the cmeetery of any left
movement to oppose the drift towards deeper and deeper barbarism.
Barbaism had arrived when Luxemburg coiined the slogan: it was the 20th
century. 

None of us really know WITBD in the preent. Admitting that fact
forgetting the mere gossip which constitues mainstream political
discussion would be a small start.

Carrol

Carrol