Re: [Marxism] Admire Colin Powell - Hell No!!!

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness,
and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass
scale is, necessarily, an alteration which can only take place in a
practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore,
not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but
also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in
ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society
anew". Karl Marx, *The German Ideology*

Isn't this revolution, necessary to rid men of t'he muck of ages', tacitly
taken by Marx to mean violent insurrection?

MARVIN GANDALL WROTE:

Real tough guys, eg. Lenin and Trotsky, never strutted about,
even when they had bragging rights after having led a mass revolutionary
party. Executions occured at all levels, up to the royal family, but they
were never ordered in triumph or in vengeance, but cautiously, as sober
political acts calculated to deprive the counter-revolutionary forces of
leadership and to deter collaboration in the ranks. Other revolutionary
movements and those resisting foreign occupation (WWII, Middle East) tend to
behave the same way. In some cases, their leaderships have acted to restrain
the kind of (understandable) spontaneous thirst for vengeance from below
which civil wars and occupations produce, and which you -- even at this
great distance from that kind of situation -- seem eager to encourage.

_________________________________________________________________
Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger
http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger


_______________________________________________
Marxism mailing list
Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism