Re: Re: agrarian revo?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
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> Mark Jones wrote:
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>  At root they
> > do not want, and Wood in particular does not want, to acknowledge that
> > 'class struggle' is not about struggles over the wage thru genteel trade
> > union activities, in the USA or Europe; but class struggle is actually a
> > terrifying vortex where 4bn impverished, insecure and outraged persons spin
> > around 1 billion people living in the fleshpots of the west.
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Mark, I don't think you have ever read Wood. You are just assuming that
anyone who is not apocalyptic is genteel. You have nicely summarized
here the theories she _attacks_.

It may be that Marx was profoundly wrong on the necessity or possibility
of a proletarian revolution. But the assertion of that is the heart of
Wood's work. Attacks on Wood are essentially attacks on Marxism as a
possible theory of revolution.

Also, only a very small part of Wood's total output is related to
Brenner. He does not appear in _The Retreat from Class_, and it is
Williams and Thompson more than Brenner who are important in _Democracy
against Capitalism_, which is primarily a polemic against theories of
automatic revolution -- i.e., against what Lou calls "stagism." Going by
the sort of free association Lou has practiced, it would be proper to
call him a "stagist theorist" because he attacks a book that attacks
stagism.

Carrol