From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: ethics and intentions Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:59:41 -0600 (CST) > Well, I think you did change the subject. Suppose, though, that we need a > violent overthrough and a lot of solidaristic class struggle to get there, > If I garnt this for the sake of argument, how does that help you answer my > question? In fact, what you're granting here would have to be argued out in some detail before I'd actually be prepared to make many statements about what would and would not be the case under socialism, but let me take just one for now, the question of racism. It simply does not make sense to speak of racism under socialism *in the United States* (I do not speak of anywhere else), for the simple reason that we will never have socialism in the United States except through a process of struggle which *along the way* and *within the struggle* essentially destroys racism. If the struggle for socialism does not destroy racism, then neither will it overthrow capitalism. How will you get down off of Mount Everest if you are naked after climbing it? A foolish question, for if you were naked you wouldn't have gotten there. Similarly it is a foolish question to ask how would one handle racism under socialism, for socialism wouldn't exist under such conditions. So *any* question you ask me about socialism must be first related to the necessities of the struggle for socialism. Perhaps more later. Carrol --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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