Date: Tue, 10 Feb 98 11:55:17 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Marxism's Epitaph








		Lou Proyect wrote:




	"One of these days Godena might figure out that Marxism depends on
a highly focused examination of the material conditions of life. There are
facts, statistics and a bunch of other boring things that are necessary to
make sense of it all. Godena has written huge gobs of prose about the
American working-class, but I can't remember him providing a single
statistical breakdown of its composition by income, race, gender,
nationality, etc." 



	Of course Marxism demands that we do something with these facts
beyond putting the white hats on the materially oppressed and demanding
that they rally to the statist agenda dictated by "the party".  Godena
rightly identifies old-fashioned Leninist Marxism as Panacea Marxism. 
Marxism is much more than a statist revolution of the poor.  It is the
LIBERATION of the productive force.  It is the LIBERATION of the
individual.  It is the founding of a society based on trust and
interdependence.  To sum up that powerful ideology in a bureaucratic plan
is impossible.  To try to do it is a crime. 





	peace




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