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In a message dated 2/4/2010 4:47:14 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: You mention the proletarian revolution, a concept I also accept, and yet Dialectical Marxism has presided over 150 years of almost total failure. Is it not time therefore to think things afresh, beginning with a ruling-class theory Engels unwisely imported into our movement? Comment The failure of proletarian revolution to materialize at the front - America for instance, has absolutely nothing to do with “Dialectical Marxism.” Rather than hand wringing why not simply apply your critical thinking to the here and now? Why has proletarian revolution not materialized in say America? Let me guess: someone left the cake out in the rain. In my estimate we are exactly where we suppose to be, rather than being at a point that is the result of a failure of Marxism. The unfolding revolution is right on time. Social revolution is the results - comes about, from qualitative changes in the productive forces of society. Not because the industrial class is big, or small or fights battles with its employers or is starving and any other number of reasons. Hundreds of words spewed forth on the meaning of the word change is pretty silly. WL. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
