Chris Hedges:
>> Hope in this age of bankrupt capitalism will come with the return of the
>> language of class conflict. It does not mean we have to agree with Karl
>> Marx, who advocated violence and whose worship of the state as a utopian
>> mechanism led to another form of enslavement of the working class, but we
>> have to speak in the vocabulary Marx employed. <
Me:
> what? Marx didn't say any of this.
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: Well, he didn't say exactly that, but lets not get [too] "utopian"
> about Chollie [Marx]. It's pretty clear that he thought quite a bit of armed
> struggle would be necessary for successful revolution. He certainly
> advocated use of force in self-defense.
right: it was in defense of a mass working-class movement (e.g., the
Paris Commune). It wasn't "advocating violence" in some abstract
sense, which sounds like Pol Pot or Stalin when linked to the "worship
of the state as a utopian mechanism" (i.e., forcibly stuffing
communism down people's throat from above) that Hedges alleges.
--
Jim Devine
"Those who take the most from the table
Teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined
Demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry
of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call too ruling difficult
For ordinary folk." – Bertolt Brecht.
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