Re: A Carrol Cox pearl from LBO-Talk

["ÁÎ×Ó¹â HenryC.K.Liu ¹ù¤l¥ú" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have people like him in China who throughout the protracted revolutionary
struggle kept saying that the rich and the establishment got all the cards
and that dreams of revolution were simply futile and senseless, not even
logical, not realizing all the time that that the very defiance of logic and
overwhelming power was the most powerful revolutionary force.
Doug keeps hoping that if only he would play their game, the system would
give him power to make a real revolution, not knowing that if the system is
willing to give up power so easily, there would be no need for revolution.
Doug Henwood never left Yale.

Henry

Louis Proyect wrote:

> Doug's [Henwood--is there any other?] view of marxist history is a very
> close analogue to the way in which the French generals prepared for World
> War 2 -- he is agonizing over how to avoid mistakes in a situation which
> will never occur again, so naturally he cannot even began to speculate on
> what mistakes we may make in the future.
>
> Louis Proyect
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