> What has anything Ted said or quoted got to do with Stalinism? Why are
> you scared by the quote? Surely there is nothing Stalinist in stating the
> that at times individuals must be sacrificed for the welfare of all. Surely
> plenty of people who are not Stalinists believe that?
>
Yes and there have been plenty of people willing to squander life in factories to develop the productive forces, to violently kill off small holders who stood in the way of large scale agriculture, and to exterminate tribals who would not move for dams and mining projects. The quote reads as a theodicy, and has the ring of the least considered thing Marx ever wrote.
LR
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> --- On Mon, 2/15/10, Lakshmi Rhone <lakshmirhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Lakshmi Rhone <lakshmirhone at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification)
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 12:58 PM
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Ted
> > Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com>
> > wrote
> > (quoting Marx):
> >
> > > To oppose the welfare of the individual to this
> > end, as Sismondi does, is
> > > to assert that the development of the species must be
> > arrested in order to
> > > safeguard the welfare of the individual, so that, for
> > instance, no war may
> > > be waged in which at all events some individuals
> > perish.
> > >
> >
> > Frankly speaking, Ted you are scaring me. My social justice
> > perspective is
> > at odds with your Marxism/Stalinism. I worry that I am on
> > the wrong list.
> >
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