[lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new

[Miles Jackson]

On 12/2/2010 1:02 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> Engels' quotes below are from Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and they refer to the new socialized mode of production, AFTER capitalism has been overthrown by proletarian revolution and we are assured that the realm of necessity will give way to the realm of freedom. They support rather than contradict Miles' assertion that "individual characteristics are a product of social relations, and thus socialism is the precondition for the type of 'enlightened' individuals you (Ted) valorize" (recognizing that the formation of such new consciousness begins within the old order, in confrontation with it).

Give it up, Marv.  As James H. pointed out on the list last spring, Ted 
fits everything to the Hegelian-procrustean bed of Development of MInd.  
I think this is a bizarre reading of Marx, but chacun son gout and all that.

Miles