Whatever else socialism is/will be/should be, it must involve humanity taking control of its own history. It is really weird that anyone should propose that we, in the midst of capitalisst horror, should have the immense (and actually totalitarian) fantasy that we can impose on that future humanity the strait jacket they will wear. And of course it is also quite fatuous to believe that any revolutionary movement would give a hoot in hell as to any such Plan from the past.
Finally, no one has ever become a socialist through the attraction of socialism. (Those who claim to have done so are not soicalists but academics sitting on the sidelines. "Socialist" MEANS political activist.) One moves into resistance to the present, and in developing that resistance one discovers that capitalism must go. The conditions under which any such movement will operate (none exists now) are as unpredictable as are the conditions following the achievement of power by such a movmeent. Only the totalitarian imagination would dream of imposign marching orders on that Future. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
