From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: ethics and intentions
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:58:02 -0600 (CST)


 Whatever we get at the end of any social transformation won't
> be socialism, by definition, if involves, e.g., racism. You disguise this
> essentially idealist approach under a materialist cloack by invoking a
> process of change, which you say will result in the exteripation of
> racism.

Then you explain to me how socialism can be won by a working class that
refuses to stand up to racism?

The Weathermen were a bit more honest. They came out flat and declared
that the only way socialism could come to the U.S. was by being imposed
through occupation by a foreign army.

Carrol


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