From: Boris.Vidovic-AT-sea.fi Subject: VS: VS: PLC: Marxist Propaganda Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:30:58 +0300 The things after communism have gone from bad to worse, of course. In all the ex-communist coutries people have been returned there where their development has stopped: primitive capitalism, grabing of money, resources etc. That's what 'normal' capitalist world has gone through at least 100 years ago. In the last decades of communism there was a popular saying "the system is good but it doesn't work". What kind of system it is that is supposedly good but doesn't work!? That's just bull. Yes, I agree that there has to be some kind of marriage between theory and praxis. The problem is/was that in communist countries there has been all praxis and no theory, and in the West Marxism has its place in the academy but not much can be seen in the 'real life'. I know that Marx and Engels knew that capitalism is changing as well, but the communist governments didn't knew that Marx had known it. So I don't care whether Sweden (at least in the 70's and 80's) deserves to be called a socialist country, capitalist country or whatever. The main issue is that it worked, people had freedom, social institutions worked, welfare state was at its best. Coming from where I'm coming I don't care about the labels. Yes, Howard, capitalism as described and analysed by Marx has been 'delegated' to the Third World and ex-communist countries. So globally his analyses still seem to be valid. But, to put it crudely as Marx and his teacher Hegel certainly would, these countries are on the lower historical level. We have seen so many times that capitalism always finds some way to renew itself. Why socialism/communism cannot find some mode of renewal? That is the real issue. Boris Vidovic --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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