Mother of All Questions (was: What is LЭko looking for?)

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxx>]

> This is not (b) and not "also".  This is THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS!  Period.
> And this question stands as tall today as it stood in Petrograd in the wee
> hours of November  8 (Western style)1917: will they hear our signal and will

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> one of such conferences and my only thought on the way back to Russia was: Why
> in the world these people would ever dream of making a revolution?!
> Revolutions are dirty, terribly messy, bloody things, with coffee shops locked
> for good and Internet disconnected. I am not trying to look holier then them.
>  If I were in their shoes I would be fucking stupid even to seriously think
> about saying "Revolution."  I mean there are always some exceptional
> individuals with extremely developed moral consciousness and will power.
> There is also the adventurist type, ennobled by moral passion and sympathy to
> the oppressed.  But those are the tiny minority.  Most of the left, including
> the Marxist left are just decent "normal" people who in the West can enjoy and
> do enjoy basically good life, as good as can be reasonably expected under the
> present human condition. This is why, dear Nestor, the Mother of All Questions
> will not be confronted by these people.  And I honestly cannot blame them for
> that.  To become a revolutionary force Marxism needs those who can be both
> cold and hot.  But the modern Western society tends to produce the lukewarm
> type of humanity.  And, perhaps, it's the kind most suited for life.

It would seem that this is not really the Mother of All Questions, Mr.
Stolz, since you seem to have already found the pat answer to it!



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