Re: [Marxism] The criticismofreligion[was:RE:Vnzla:reasonstobeoptimistic]

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> 
> 
> This is a social layer distinguished above all by the consciousness and
> understanding of those in it that it is the social system as such that is
> the problem.
> 
> I suspect that Mark does not agree that there is such a social layer, or
> that it should be a focus of analysis and concern, and that, rather than
> terminology, is the real issue here.

I think this topic or sub-topic needs to be pursued further.

Mark, Joaquin, myself, a number of people on the lbo & pen-l lists are
all part of the largest single group of conscious marxists in the u.s.
-- independent marxists who are not attached, or not strongly attached,
to any formal marxist organization. I would expand that a bit. Many who
are not marxists, or say they are not, have essentially the same
understanding of and attitude towards socialism as do the conscious
marxists in this group.

Do we  want to characterize this grouping as a "social layer"? How does
it fit into the arguments Joaquin and Mark are advancing?

Carrol


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