On Oct 29, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> I wonder how Doug thinks any sort of socialist revolution would proceed.
>
> Such a revolution would be made by people who grew up in and are
> the products of a capitalist society. If they socialize any of the means
> of production, those means of production will have been the
> creations of capitalism. It is also quite possible, and indeed probable,
> that even after a revolution, we still will have a good deal of
> capitalism
> continuing on - with the expectation that in due course those
> remaining capitalist relations of production will eventually wither away.
That is exactly how I think a socialist revolution would proceed. It must build on the foundations of capitalism. I suspect that a lot of today's spontaneous revolutionaries don't agree - they want to reject it all. The call to abolish corporate personhood, for example, betrays a lack of having thought anything about scale and organization. But one of the many encouraging things about all this is that people are reading, talking, thinking.
Doug