From: michael a. lebowitz (mlebowit@SFU.CA)
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 21:02:32 EST
At 09:28 17/12/2003, jerry wrote:
>Mike L wrote:
>
>Rather, it was a bit of information to add to
> > the material that Rakesh sent from Paresh and is, I think, a good
> > indication of where Paresh's reading of Marx has taken him. In the
> > Preface to the new edition of 'Beyond CAPITAL', I referred to this
> > perspective as follows: 'Of course, in one of those ironies that Marx
> > would have appreciated, it was possible to find conservatives of
> > various hues quoting scriptures and declaring that capitalism's
> > successes and the failures of AES ['Actually Existing Socialism"]
> > confirmed that Marx was right.'
>
>You're not actually suggesting that Paresh is a "conservative",
>are you?
>
>In solidarity, Jerry
No more so than Nathan Rosenberg who made much the same argument, I
believe, and to whom Harry Cleaver responded. Seriously, what would you
call someone who, if Cuba's project were to collapse, might say Marx had
the last laugh or who might argue against accelerating the process in
Venezuela because, in the absence of the fully developed capitalist mode of
production, all attempts at exploding the society would be Don Quixotism?
in solidarity,
michael
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