Re: assessing risk

[Ben Pincas <benpincas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Les wrote:
>
> hey, if you got some relevant revo theory, come on baby light my fire!
>
>
No theories, other than the fact that Trotsky had to revise completely HIS 
theories once he found himself in a real revolution: he even said (in The 
Russian Revolution) that he thought that Marx must have been wrong (revolution 
in Russia: wrong place and wrong time) - but then thoughts about dialectical 
leaps saved his faith.

No theories - but maybe we are seeing something interesting happening all 
around the globe.

For analysis you need facts - aren't there enough interesting acts around the 
globe, from Venezuela and Colombia right through to Afghanistan and the 
Phillipines to show you that the house is burning?

Now you can study fires in the practice - but only if you are manage to keep an 
open mind as Trotsky did - remember he was willing to throw Marx out of the 
window because it didn't seem to fit with the facts on the ground. Precisely 
because of that, together with Lenin's pragmatism, Marxism could progress.

Wegwerfen - BUT - Aufheben. Contradictory, but that is what it seems to me to 
be all about.

1848 - here we go again!


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