Mike Ballard wrote: > To imply that there was no post-wage labour vision embedded in the writings > of Marx and Engels is probably one of the main stumbling blocks to > revolutionary praxis today and for the continuance of radical liberalism > posing as socialism. Writing receipts for the Sardis of the future is > another matter entirely.<
Marx saw capitalism's abolition as an inherent tendency, not only because of its crises and the like but because of its creation of the proletariat. But, as noted, he didn't tell the workers what they should replace capitalism with (the "receipts"). That's because he believed in the collective self-liberation of the working class. It's up to the workers to collectively decide what they want. Even though Marx and Engels rejected utopian socialism, according to Draper they saw reading and discussing utopian literature as part of the collective self-education of the working class. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
