Re Paul C's [5607]: Paul previously offered the following quote for our consideration: > I often say that when you can measure what you > are speaking about and express it in numbers, > you know something about it; but when you > cannot measure it, when you cannot express it > in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager > and unsatisfactory kind." (Kelvin) I responded, in part, by asking: > Is our knowledge about psychology, > anthropology, history, etc. of a meager and > unsatisfactory kind? Paul's answer: > Clearly so. Most scientists, though, would readily admit that our knowledge of the universe is also of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. Thus, it could be said that the entire accumulated wisdom of our species is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. > As far as I am aware there is as yet no serious > quantitative work on revolutionary history. And with good reason! > And the > current status of revolutionary theory is a joke. > It is certainly knowledge of a most unsatisfactory > kind. Well ... one hopes that we have learned something from working class and revolutionary history. This is most certainly not 'a joke' from the standpoint of the working class for whom an ability to grasp some of the lessons of history can mean the difference between success and failure and life and death. In solidarity, Jerry
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