Lou wins the Marx-quote pissing contest. Lou ALWAYS wins pissing contests. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/16 8:09 PM, Tom Walker wrote: > > As Marx wrote in his September 1843 letter to Ruge... > > > > > > "Hence, nothing prevents us from making criticism of politics, > > participation in politics, and therefore /real /struggles, the > > starting point of our criticism, and from identifying our criticism > > with them. In that case we do not confront the world in a > > doctrinaire way with a new principle: Here is the truth, kneel down > > before it!We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s > > own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, > > they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We > > merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and > > consciousness is something that it /has to /acquire, even if it does > > not want to." > > > 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. The progress which the > proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is > infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the > presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the > forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the > reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the > election will already have been destroyed. > > Marx and Engels, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist > League, London, March 1850 > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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