On Thu, 17 May 2001, you wrote: > > > 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. > My point is not that the subject of revolution is a joking matter, but that the status of what claims to be revolutionary theory was. If you think it is not, what well established theory of how to carry out revolutions in capitalist countries can you point to. I mean a theory that has been tested in practice? -- Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 0141 330 3125 mobile:07946 476966 paul@cockshott.com http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/wpc/ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/index.html
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