Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 17:53:00 -0500 From: james m blaut <70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: M-I: The Vortex of the World Market, or Capitalism Sucks Carrol and Doug and list: Remember that old song... "Arise ye prisoners of starvation, Arise ye wretched of the earth, For justice thunders condemnation, A better world's in birth." I'm a Marxist because I think this world view and this strategy is the best one that anyone has thus far come up with for relieving human misery. Moreover, I think that fighting against misery is the only reason why Marxists are willing to make sacrifices, unto their lives. I've always thought that social democrats were the ones who believed that capitalism would evolve upward, naturaslly, toward socialism, that Marxists believe that this cann't happen and a revolution of some sort is necessary. However they dress uyp Marxist theory in the glittering raiments of political economy, I dpon't think they'll ever convince most street Marxists that socialism will come when capitalism reaches its pinnacle of perfection. It will co0me when people are hurting enough to attack the system. I'm not anti-theory. I do a different kind of theory in my own work. But when Marxists use Marxist theory to pacify and dishearten folks with arguments, always elegant ones, that capitalism really doesn't cause misery, I get pissed. Marx thought, or at least hoped, that revolution would come in his lieftime or soon after. It is absurd to cite him as authority for the belief tghat capitalism will rise, slowly and majecticsally, toward socialism. En la lucha verdadera Jim B. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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