From: dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 11:06:15 +0000
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: What Will Socialism Look Like?


> Date:          Sat, 28 Dec 1996 01:10:34 -0500
> To:            marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> From:          dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
> Subject:       Re: M-I: Re: What Will Socialism Look Like?
> Reply-to:      marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

> At 12:37 AM 12/28/96, Louis R Godena wrote:
> 
> >I believe that any regime that owed the fact of its coming to power solely
> >to the working class would be a remarkably impotent one which would quickly
> >marry itself off to the Right to maintain itself in power.    Its subsequent
> >tenure would be atavistic,  brutish and short.     The workers would be
> >asked to fulfill a role for which they are simply not suited,  and to
> >provide the basis for a society wholly foreign to their temperment and
> >capabilities.     Labor's role is that of modernizer,  not revolutionary --
> >for that the critical element of unrelenting violence has to be employed in
> >a systemic and disciplined way.    It is unlikely to emerge from within a
> >working class context.
> 
> So should we just give up this whole Marxist thing?
> 
> Doug

Don't worry  Doug,  Godena's not a marxist, he's a narodnik.
He idealises the peasantry and its capacity for sustained and 
disciplined violence. Or maybe he has cyborgs in mind.
Dave.


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