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In a message dated 12/24/2009 12:30:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, markala...@gmail.com writes: I sincerely appreciate your agreement. I share your respect for those who've gone before us, and take your point about their having done the best they could. Their lack of success doesn't imply a worthlessness if we can learn from our failures. In the end, I'm sure we both hope we are the last generation to get to our present ages and have to wonder how capitalism has managed to survive without even inspiring much of a serious oppositional movement. ML Reply Mistakes yes. There was no failure. A system passes through boundaries. Yes, we can fight like hell and shape the next boundary. Capital was not overthrown because it could not be so. Capital has is opposition but the intellectual expression of the opposition changes from one boundary to another in correspondence to whatever section of the working class is the cutting edge of the struggle. One cannot be accused of not being able to do the impossible. No where has "the revolution" materialized at the front curve of capitalist/industrial development. There has been plenty revolts and a hundred years of protest. Hell, the serf protested over a thousand years. It will not take us this long. We are actually on track. WL. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
