RE: [Marxism] Revolution -- was: Admire Colin Powell - Hell No!!!

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks James- the point is well made and understood. I really was quite
unsure of whether Marx meant to imply revolution as violent in the passage I
quoted from the GI. No doubt Marx was talking about a revolutionary
transformation of the working class from an alienated enslaved state of
being to a radically more free and human one. Nonetheless, I daresay Marx
was not a total pacifist.

all the best.

JAMES DALY WROTE:

> Calvin B. quotes one of the most crucial passages in Marx, but uses it,
> especially the word "revolution", to buttress a claim to an "implicit"
> reference to violence, at a tangent to what Marx was talking about. Marx
> did
> not shrink from violence, but his references to it are not categorical
> absolutes, definitive of revolution.

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