[lbo-talk] Waht Would Have to Happen First

[Joanna]

"Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is, necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm>

Fantastic quotation, thanks. Which is why no one can do your fighting or bleeding for you.

j.