Note that with rare exceptions Marx only makes sense, is only resorted to, by men and women who are already in motion. He doesn't _persuade_ anyone. Persuasion is the most over-rated of all human activitiesd. Those who already share a large area of agreement and are also actively attempting to put their ideas into practice can persuade each other on particular issues of analysis or tactics or strategy. But men and women are only "persuaded" to change their basic views by the spectacle of other men and women in action. A million million words never persuaded anyone to stop being a racist, but the spectacle of men and women struggling drew more and more in and fundamental attitudes began to change without anyone "persuading" anyone by argument.
If you find your self involved in attempts to change the world, you look around for explnations of your activity and of the world that provoked that activity - and if you are very very lucky you stumble on Marx and Luxemburg - or for that matter as a beginning point, some of the 'marxists' who were more thugs than revolutionaries. You develop in practice, and that's when the Lone Hero of a theorist becomes of overrigding importance. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
