Juriaan wrote:
> > As for
> > "communist elements" (Paul C's term), I don't think that reforms won by
> > the working class under capitalism and reluctantly granted by the
> > capitalist state signify the existence of communist relations in embreyo.
>
> Well, yes and no. If it is true as Marx suggested that the new society
> develops "in the womb" of the old, or at any rate within the old society,
> it should be possible to identify social forms (forms of association or
> cultures) which anticipate the future society. And arguably, if we cannot
> find any of them, and alternative mode of production is either a long way
> off or not a real feasibility.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC