Subject: Re: M-TH: Reform and Revolution
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "hoov" <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>


> Well, the very idea of actually instigating a reform, rather than merely
> delaying the death of one our mums and dads won for us, seems revolutionary
> all by itself just now.
> Rob.

about two decades before he bid adieu to the working class, Andre Gorz
suggested a difference between 'reformist' reforms & 'revolutionary'
reforms (_Strategy for Labor_)...the former subordinates objectives
to the present system and rejects demands incompatible with preserving 
that system...the latter is conceived not in terms of the 'cult of the 
possible' but what should be made possible in terms of human needs and 
demands...in other words, anti-capitalist reforms not predicated upon 
capitalist needs, criteria, rationales...

surely Marx had some like 'revolutionary reforms' in mind when he
called the 10 Hrs. Bill a victory for the political economy of the
working class...

today, perhaps, the difference between ESOPs and certain kinds of 
producer/worker coops?...Michael Hoover



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