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

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
> The intent of my comments was not to denigrate Marxists who fight for
> reforms, but to suggest that how people perceive themselves today and the
> struggles they involve themselves in is not a meaningful indicator of how
> they would react in a serious revolutionary crisis.

Of Course again. And it is utterly irrelevant to the question at issue.
What is the importance (or intelligibility or possibility) of people
thinking as revolutionaries _in the present_ (when there is no
revolutionary situation).

And the fact is that those who are self-consciously revolutionary make
better reformists, as Lou points out. Some reformists (a definite
minority) make good reformists, but most waste their time and goof up
the efforts of others in winning reforms.

Carrol