Re: Who's revolutionary? (Was: Intolerance in India)

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall wrote:
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> Describing oneself or someone as a "revolutionary" outside of a
> revolutionary period is utterly meaningless to me.

The reason (some) "revolutionaries" are superior reformists to most
non-revolutionaries is a superior understanding of the present. Seeing
the present as history means seeing that the present is unintelligible
except when seen from (a hypothetical) future. It is impossible to
understand the everyday workings of capitalism properly unless you see
it from a future (barbarianism or socialism), those futures (one or the
other) being the _meaning_ of capitalism.

Carrol