[lbo-talk] Chavez's socialist world vision

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

You act like you're presenting some sort of novel idea here and not the
dominant thinking on the left for more than a century-- how's that François
Mitterrand working out for you?  The difference between governing a state
bound by the logic of capital, dependent on revenue from private businesses
and running a soup kitchen should be self-evident.  How do you think reforms
in the sphere of health and education (or even the vote) came about?  They
were *concessions.  *The kind of concessions that mass opposition movements
force.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com>wrote:


>

Somebody: Yeah, and to head up a trade union is to serve capital, and to be
> a member of Parliament of a minority left party is to serve capital, and to
> run a soup kitchen in an inner city is to serve capital, and to have a
> socialist mailing list is to serve capital.
>
> Maybe the left should concern itself less with whether or not it's tainted
> by capital and more about achieving practical goals to improve people's
> lives. Less revolutionary rhetoric and more improved health and education,
> comrades.
>