The Old Man: (Reported in some MR page filler some years ago. A New York reporter interviewed Marx in the garden of his London home. At the end of the interview proper, the reporter paused and then asked:
What is? Marx (after a pause so long the reporter though he had fallen asleep): Struggle. Not victorious struggle. Not a sham struggle embroidering predetermined history, but just: Struggle. No prediction of the outcome. No recipes. No sure-fire 'theory' of revolution. Just struggle. Carrol ^^^^^^^ CB: Come on , Carrol. Why would 100's of millions of people take risks to challenge the system based on a sort of hippy response like this. Do you really think Marx wrote umpteen volumes that he didn't really want people to pay attention to and really wanted everybody to focus on this obscure conversation with a newspaper reporter ? I love you , but i can't believe that somebody as intelligent as you believes this. Why didn't he say this when he gave the lecture to workers that became _Value, Price and Profit_ ? Or his critique of the Gotha Programme ? Or _The Communist Manifesto_ ? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
