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On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
But more importantly. You don’t know, I don’t know, and Albert
doesn’t know what people will and will not “want” under the radically changed conditions of a socialist society emerging from the chaos of
capitalism in its death agonies. (And that is the only kind of capitalism that
will precede any socialist society.)
Ah the death agony of capitalism, one of Leon T’s less fortunate
moments. If we’re going to rely on that, forget about it. It’s just
as likely that such a death agony - if it happened - could result in
some horrific authoritarian transformation as a desirable one. If
that’s your theory of how we get from here to there, we might as well
give up. We have to work with what we’ve got, and humanizing the
present system seems a lot more promising than your sort of black magic.
Doug