[lbo-talk] The Ideology Problem

[Chuck Grimes]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 18:17 -0400, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 05:48 PM 5/4/2010, Somebody Somebody wrote:
> >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.
> 
> rilly?
> 
> so what was wrong with the answers we did give?
> 
> shag

Yeah, jopped my draw too. %&@!! Fucking what? Just about every rotten
thing Marxists and Socialists had to say about Capital came to pass.
These anti-capital ideologies in retrospect read almost like predictive
sciences. The only real question is how bad will it get? That's what has
the liberals, neoliberals, and rightwing reactionaries at each other,
screaming communist or fascist. The general principles of the
anti-capital forces click down the clipboard check list of atrocities
like a droid from quality control going through sample product in the
clone factory.

Oh never mind.

CG