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Socialist Progressives

limpyhobbler

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14. "...until there's a realistic threat..."

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Reply #7)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:35 AM

Apr 2012

Even the New Deal programs that many of us like so much, might never have been enacted unless there was a real sense that something big and dangerous was about to happen. After all 1933 was only about 16 years after the Russian Revolution. Seems fair to say that the reformist program benefits from the presence of a revolutionary element. If only to make the reformers appear as the safer option to those in power. But also as a source of ideas and as agitators and organizers.

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Anyone reading "Why Marx Was Right" by Terry Eagleton? [View all] Odin2005 Apr 2012 OP

Thom Hartmann has said that Marx was right in his Cleita Apr 2012 #1

Exactly, the solutions need to be messy, Warpy Apr 2012 #2

You are so right. Cleita Apr 2012 #3

True, and DonCoquixote Apr 2012 #4

Warpy, how would you answer the question TBF Apr 2012 #8

Liberals went out of power in 1969 Warpy Apr 2012 #9

"...and had people not been completely snowed by a....... socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #10

Regulating capitalism is like riding a tiger......... socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #11

I'd agree with that - TBF Apr 2012 #12

Well, that's not a innovative insight into Marx...... socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #7

"...until there's a realistic threat..." limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #14

Yes exactly. A realistic threat from the left moves the whole.......... socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #16

Exactly. Fantastic Anarchist May 2012 #19

There are other alternatives to a Marxist revolution. Fantastic Anarchist May 2012 #18

This is pretty good ashling Apr 2012 #5

Thanks ash. I'm grateful you found this and brought it to us.......... socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #6

Watched it, seems to make perect sense. limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #15

It's a good book. white_wolf Apr 2012 #13

I did. It was good, except when it flirted with anti-semitism Taverner May 2012 #17