On 11/13/12 5:33 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > It's a product of the same uniquely leftist malaise whereby some of our > comrades think it's terribly important for them (and us) to have the > right "position" on any number of things over which they (and we) can > take no meaningful action and have no practical influence.
This is, of course, not how Marx saw it. Since Joseph has never given any evidence of having read Karl Marx, I can't be surprised that he is not aware of this. "Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled." We must assume that Marx was all wet in issuing such a "position". It would have been far more revolutionary to spray paint a coffee shop if they had spray paint back then. > > It's what you do, in a way that actually accomplishes something, > that counts there. > The aversion to theory so bemoaned by Karl Marx in his letters to Sorge rears its ugly head once again. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
