[lbo-talk] The Ideology Problem

[Somebody Somebody]

Dennis: Oh yeah.  I forgot about that one.  I always thought it was silly but 
I can see how the juvenileness of it would appeal to you.

Somebody: Maybe this is juvenile historical materialism too. Socialism didn't get it's ass beat in the 20th century due to a failure to fully grapple with epistemological or metaphysical questions. It was because it didn't provide the right answers to questions dealing with the relations of production.