Chris Maisano wrote:
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> I'm also reminded of Walter Benjamin's famous quip: "Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise, perhaps revolutions are an attempt by passengers on this train—namely the human race—to activate the break."
One of my biggest mistakes in the last 30 years was not to read, reread, and read some more in the works of Benjamin. I think this is much more than a quip. That is quite precisely what the Socialist Revolution must do Stop the mad rush of capitalism to chaos (at which it has, of course, already arrived).
Carrol