Why would one want to? I've never tried to explain Marx or Marxism to anyone who was not already engaged in some kind of anti-capitalist or potentially anti-capitalist struggle. No one who is not already, at some implicit level, can understand such explanations. This goes back to my understanding of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach. Theory makes sense only to those who have discovered the need for theory in their own practice. And from a revolutionary standpoint, nearly 200 years of experience has demonstrated that most of those who make a revolution are not self-conscious revolutionaries until after the fact. And this applies to many of the leaders as well as mass participants in the struggle.
Arguing socialism turns people away from the necessity of struggle _now_. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
