>If you won't hit it, it won't fall.< Even if true, Carrol makes himself sound like Cato the Elder, who repeatedly declared "Carthago delenda est" at the end of every speech (even if it didn't have anything to do with Carthage, it is said). But unlike Carrol, Cato had the political clout to convince the Roman Senate to eventually put his program into action (to destroy Carthage, seed its soil with salt, etc.)
In any event, we should remember that even if "it" (capitalism) is "hit" by a revolutionary movement, that's not enough: capitalism can come back. In addition to "hitting" capitalism, the anti-capitalist movement has to create an alternative, some sort of social system that replaces capitalism. (Marx saw the Paris Commune as being the start of such an alternative.) Not only can capitalism spring back from the interstices of an incoherent alternative, it's possible that a new, non-capitalist, class society could arise, as with the now-defunct Soviet Union. To my mind, that makes the main goal of the left to help create a [small d] democratic mass movement to not only oppose -- or "hit" -- capitalism but also to help create an alternative system. -- Jim Devine / "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." -- John Buchan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
