[lbo-talk] Waht Would Have to Happen First

[Carrol Cox]

The morality-saturated imagination of the abstract-isolated-individual
of capitalist society  transforms all fundamental slogans into moral
exhortation.

"Trust the People" is translatecd int (a) You SHOULD trust the people"
and "The People are trustworthy."

"Socialism or Barbarbarism" is translateed into "*Capitalism is Evil"
and "Scoialism is good."

"The Peopld" are, in fact, not very trustworthy at all, but unless "the
people" (some sub-sector that emreges) change the wrold no one is going
to change the world. The slogann is merely a summary of human history.
The same with Luxemburg's slogan. "Capitalism is evil" is an empty
phrase. Capitalism is history. and it leads to barbarism Socialism is
the struggle against capitalism, and the outcome of struggles cannot be
predicted or choreographed.

Reporte: What is?

Karl Marx: (After a very long pause): Struggle.

Carrol