[lbo-talk] Boots Riley on Occupy the Hood

[Carrol Cox]

The Concrete Goals listed in the Communist Manifesto came from the practice
of the Communist League; they were not  theoretically derived. The general
goal of socialism as something which could be proclaimed as a goal was also
rooted in the practice of the European proletariat during the first half of
the 19th-c. In fact, the Manifesto is NOT a theoretical document. For Marx's
_theory_ you have to go to his Critique of Political economy: Theories of
Surplus Value, Capital, Grudrisse. 

Carroi

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Carrol wrote:


> > The concrete goals of left movements can never be theorized in advance.
> > (That was the error that generated the FHP* paper a decade or so 
> ago and the
> > hysteria about "demands" in the early weeks of the NYC OWS.)

Does this also apply to the Communist Manifesto? 

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