On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I've come to thiink of the Socialist/Communist _movement_ as rather
> larger than "Marxism," though I personally believe that Marx's
> Critique
> of Capitalism is the best (for me only) adequate theoretical
> foundation
> for the movment. But no movement gets far that demands theoretical
> purity from its particpants, and a Communist Movement that did not
> include rather large numbers of non-Marxists would hardly constitute a
> movement. (The CPUSA would not have been much without its many "fellow
> travellers," a labvel that ought to be seen as noble rather sneered
> at.) I think I've argued before that a sofialist revlution would
> involve
> many who up to the moment of Yes/No ( the eve of an insurrection)
> would
> not consider themselves revolutionaries.
>
> I don't know whtether this bears on Klein or not.
It makes her analysis of capitalism more shallow and short-sighted than it should be. Reading her, you might think that exploitation and oppression began with Pinochet, and apologetics for same with Milton Friedman.
Doug