<And, if memory serves, Marx held out hope for revolution by
>constitutional
>means within monarchies during his 1873 speech to the Working Men's
>Association at The Hague (I think he cited Britain and The Netherlands -
>both constitutional monarchies).
Rob, respectfully, you don't get it. Marx saw "constitutional means" a
pragmatic "vehicle" to achieve socialism, not an end itself. Marx was a
revolutionary. Once, he believed, revolution took place, which was a
revolution in the "socio-economic realm", the political superstructure of
the same socio-economic grounding would be overthrown. Does he say this or
not? Let's face it..
Rosa did the same strategic mistake in naively believing in the
"spontaneous" gains of the bourgeois constitutional democracy..She did not
take into consideration the "persistence" of status-quo in Europe and
incorporation of working classes.
please, let's NOT SOCIAL DEMOCRATIZE or BERNSTAINIZE Marx
here!!ohhhhhhhhhh.. I can not stand this sort of social democratic reading
of Marx.. sorry..
Mine
>Cheers,
>Rob.
