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If everyone hadn't some idealic vision of freedom they'd be willing to sacrifice nothing

Posted by: Lark on October 14, 1999 at 16:43:19:

In Reply to: Utopias perform a very, very important component of any ideology, they confuse people posted by Stoller on October 12, 1999 at 12:32:22:

: Have you ever heard a single word on this debate board?

Yes and I think a waste of time to "reconstruct" or seek to exhonorate Marxism, Bakunin was right Marx was wrong lets all live with it.

: Marx said that communism can only arise from the capitalist mode of production. The only difference then will be that the social relations get changed. Seriously, my friend, that is the A B C of it! China and Cuba both fail the criteria! SDF has said this a zillion times!

Yes, I'm aware so? Anarchists and nobodies have said the same thing, why this God Marx?

: : Utopias perform a very, very important component of any ideology, they inspire and motivate, aswell as providing a blueprint as to what would be preferable to the existing order...

: We've seen a millon of them! Myself included! They have never done anything but weaken the revolutionary resolve!

Nonsense. If everyone hadn't some idealic vision of freedom they'd be willing to sacrifice nothing, not even enough time to post here.

: Why should people go off somewhere and create a world for themselves when the world they live in is the world that they have worked so hard to create? Why retreat?---the capitalists will just come after the workers with leg irons anyway if they left.

Not following this bit.

: : Besides the significance of class is shrinking of the political map.

: Wrong! As capitalism moves into the final quarters of the globe and fills every nation with its insidious influence, the issue gets more and more salient.

Really? Well I am a Socialist and I generally dont see anything great about the workingclass at all, most marxists etc. think the workingclass are a bunch of saints, if they didn't revel in anti-intellectualism and facistic behaviour I'd see your point but since that's not the case I'll move to your next point.

: : I like much of that crap, I dont want to live in a nation where the primary produce are cabbage or something.

: Again, read Marx. Industrialization is the predicate of communist revolution!

Away with these all hallowed bibles I tell you!


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