On 2012-02-07, at 2:24 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Another passage. I find that I now have to enlarge the font so much to read
> a Word file that I can't really find my way around in Tamas' essay…
Tamas writes:
> The historically-forced synthesis of
> egalitari anism and socialism is obviously not over in the 'developing'
> world where egalitarian movements based on the petty merchants of the
> bazaar, on the peasantry and the lower clergy ('Islamic radicalism') are
> attacking the West ernized elites and military states with an islamicized
> Khmer Rouge rhetoric or, in Latin America, with an 'indigenous' millenarism.
> It is a telling fact that 'revolutionary openings' are on offer again on
> capitalism's periphery, where new strategies of the 'weakest link' and of
> 'combined and uneven develop ment' are reformulated for the benefit of a new
> generation of 'vicarious revolutionary' dupes.
Does Tamas explain elsewhere what he means by "vicarious revolutionary dupes"? In the above passage, he applies it to rebellious Islamists in the Middle East and to indigenous peoples in Latin America. Is he that dismissive of their movements?