Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:35:03 -1000 From: Stephen E Philion <philion-AT-hawaii.edu> Subject: Re: M-I: Draper, Engels and Sects Draper's books are published by Monthly Review Press (NYC). They probably have a toll free 800 # or you can email them for more info. Idon't have the email address handy, but I can check later for you. Steve On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Rob Schaap wrote: > Many thanks to Stephen Philion for quoting Hal Draper: > > 'Marx implemented a basically different conception of > the relation to trade unions (from the sects). Socialists should act as a > loyal left wing of the class movement, not an alternative counterposed to > it; they should start with the working class as it is and where it is in > order to change it; they should become the best militants for the limited > aims of the movement-as-is...at the same time, through this association, > they seek to push the whole movement upward to higher levels of class > struggle commitment and consciousness by means of the lessons of > experience, all without giving up or hushing their own full views or > ceasing to criticise mistaken or ineffective polices.' > > [This I LOVE! Pardon my ignorance, but who's Hal Draper and where's the > best place to start reading him? And I gotta admit, I had fallen prey to a > widespread marginalisation of Engels (in my experience anyway), but this > list has fixed that. I never knew how much he'd written - and how well > worth reading it was!] > > Rob. > > > > > --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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