Re: Hutton on Desai

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 26 May 2002 19:53:19 -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
>
>Marx, if we did but know it, is the prophet and
>advocate of globalisation.

This is the same crap we get from Hardt and Negri. It is somewhat of
a mystery why Verso would be associated with such an obviously
treacherous book. Well, maybe not so much of a mystery.

I might read v. 2 of Capital to get a handle on his arguments, but I
am in no rush. The main point is that Marx did not view capitalism as
some kind of preparatory stage for socialism. This was a revision of
reformists in the social democracy who took the early Communist
Manifesto out of context, wedded it to social Darwinism, and came up
with a stagist conception of history.

In order to make this approach credible, you have to pretend that
Marx never wrote letters to Zasulich and the other Russians
repudiating a stagist approach. You also have to distort the reality
of colonialism in the same fashion as Bill Warren did, the last
Marxist with any kind of credibility who promoted a modernization
theory in the name of Marxism.

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Louis Proyect, lnp3@xxxxxxxxx on 05/27/2002

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