Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 10:31:46 +0000
From: Richard Bos <Richard.Bos-AT-hagcott.meganet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: 'Challenger Civilisations'


Rob Schaap wrote:
> 
> [Doug is absolutely right on all counts here, I think.  Maybe Bob Malecki
> derives more comfort from this than he has any right to, but Lou's feeling
> that Doug has lapsed into a hopeless 'reiteration of the long-dead' is
> equally off the point.  Precisely the wrong response to sentiments like
> Doug's is to give up.  If I may make a *very* general comment:  It's just
> as well capitalism won't hit the wall tomorrow (a heartless thing to say in
> light of the horrors it authors around the globe, I know) - world socialism
> in general, and first-world socialism in particular, need the time (and the
> will to unity) to prepare people, internationalise their outlooks, and
> provide the odd impetus where required (else horrors of an altogether
> different order await).
> 
> Cheers, Rob.]
> 


I know what you mean. As we enter 1997 us Marxists couldn't organise a
collective piss-up in a brewery; never mind a revolution! 

Maybe we are, to some extent, mirrors of the state our class is in. As
our class begins to fight back then we pull ourselves together and vice
versa. 

-- 
Comradely,

Richard.                     
      New Worker Online http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2853



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