Justin:
>Anyway, and furthermore, what does Cohen's, or anyone's, stagism have to do
>with socialism from below? Is it inconsistent to believe that socialism must
>be the work of the subordinate classes themeselves and that one must be at a
>certain level of development oif the productive forces to have it? (Marx
>believed both of those things.) Lou, you are really losing us here.
Marx started out believing that the productive forces were key. But he
changed his mind in the last years of his life during his correspondence
with Zasulich and other Russian populists. Teodor Shanin's "Late Marx"
deals with this in depth. Strict adherence to productive forces being
"adequate" is explicit in Kautsky and G.A. Cohen. It is implict in
Brenner's complaint about "autarky".
Louis Proyect
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