On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Marx speaks of an infant socialist society, as it emerges from
> the revolution, requiring a Working Parliament: that is, he insists that
> Parliament must be deeply involved in the implementation of the 'deciosns'
> it makes: he scoffs, that is, of a leadership, such as Dean's Central
> Committee of Experts) that lays out the strategy for others to timplement.
>
It has seemed to me that some people who've contributed to the discussion threads re OWS are seeing the formation of an infant 'socialist' society that is separate from the capitalist society - a social two-state 'solution' occupying separate layers of the same geography. At least that's how I read the reference to Bruce Sterling's 'Distraction', from a slacker, to which I noted no serious objections. It led me to my suggestion that 'slogans' would be a suitable discussion list topic. I certainly didn't expect that suggestion to result in quite as thorough a crit of slogans as CC provided - but I'll study it more to see if it applies to anything that I was thinking.
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