Rod Hay wrote:
True, Charles, but surely the important thing for a Marxist is a revolution that
leads to socialism.
NO! This is to pretend that we access to a crystal ball. The important
thing for a Marxist is revolution aimed at socialism. Whether it succeeds
in maintaing itself to fit
This is closer to what I believe, Charles. But even so. It is likely that a revolution
that starts anywhere but the US or Western Europe would quickly be bombed to oblivion.
Even in US or Western Europe, it must be a mass democratic upheaval, rather than a
small group coup d'etat.
Rod
I can not think of any revolution that was not a mass democratic
movement, if the meaning of revolution is not conflated with
coup-d'etat, of course!
Mine
it was written:
mass democratic movement rather than a small group coup d'etat.
Charles Brown wrote:
There is no successful socialism
