[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thankyou Carrol, for your response. I will mull on the ramifications of
> this information. Under its self proclaimed marxist leader, I wearied of
> the daily impact of how marxism 'was'/'worked', in my part of Africa.
> Sustainable, I think not. jo*
There is a statement Marx made late in life to a reporter that also helps
to get a grip on the core of marxism. At the end of the interview, the
reporter, probably half joking, asked, "What is?"
After a long pause, Marx answered: "Struggle."
Out of Marx's analysis of capitalism comes a recognition of the
necessity of socialism (in Rosa Luxemburg's framework: socialism
or barbarianism"), but Marx offered no recipes, no blueprints for
the future. Socialism is not a "system" installed the way you install
a new operating system in your computer. It is a field of struggle.
What it is can only be determined in the process of struggle to
overcome capitalism and in continual struggle (with no guarantees
of the outcome) to build socialism concretely. Marxists have
no crystal balls (Mao said that).
Carrol
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