Re: socialism or barbarism?

[hariette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (hariette spierings)]

>socialism or barbarism?
>
>A century ago, marxists posited that the choice facing humankind
>was one of either socialism or barbarism.
>
>History worked out a compromise:  social barbarism and/or
>barbaric socialism.
>
>Inevitable as history is, it does not seem to go forward or
>backward so much as sideways.
>
>Michael
>


You are only looking at a process which has many twists and turns for avery
short strecht indeed.  Look at the whole picture and you will see a marching
forward in which socialism and barbarism are in contention and the question
of which would win out in the end is not yet decided.  What appears to you
as social-barbarism or barbaric-socialism is the unfolding of the class
struggle positing this very question ever more sharply, urgently and to more
and more people in more and more places.

Today, as barbarism, the product of the decomposition of the old bourgeois
imperialists society deepens, the socialist experience stands like a beacon
of hope for millions upon this earth who are beginning to wake up to the
fact that they cannot continue to live in the midst of such society.  That
is why socialism was never dead, as proclaimed by the intellectuals of the
bourgeoisie. On the contrary is coming back to life with new vigour and
better equipped to succeed due to the accumulated experience.  Marx himself
spoke of 150 years or even more as the period of struggles leading to
Communism, so we are entering a decisive period.  History does move
sideways, like any normal road that has its twists and turns, but it also
advances.


Adolfo



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