====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ======================================================================
S. Artesian wrote: > If others want to play the fool... that only proves that Marxism is no > inoculation against foolishness. But Angelus is not interested in the transition period, which involves proletarian dictatorships like the Paris Commune with its commodity production. With its bakery employees continuing to receive a wage although winning the right to not have to work at nights. This is the same Paris Commune that Marx wrote about as follows: "The working class did not expect miracles from the Commune. They have no ready-made utopias to introduce par décret du peuple. They know that in order to work out their own emancipation, and along with it that higher form to which present society is irresistably tending by its own economical agencies, they will have to pass through long struggles, through a series of historic processes, transforming circumstances and men. They have no ideals to realize, but to set free the elements of the new society with which old collapsing bourgeois society itself is pregnant. In the full consciousness of their historic mission, and with the heroic resolve to act up to it, the working class can afford to smile at the coarse invective of the gentlemen’s gentlemen with pen and inkhorn, and at the didactic patronage of well-wishing bourgeois-doctrinaires, pouring forth their ignorant platitudes and sectarian crotchets in the oracular tone of scientific infallibility." I would suggest that the term "ready-made utopias" describes Mr. Novus to a tee. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
