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… we must also guard against any tendency to revert to that idiom of the revolutionary Left in which fundamental questions were systematically evaded, on the assumption that if the ‘Manifesto’, or Marx's other writings, didn't pose these questions, let alone solve them , they could be disregarded. Drawing on the legacy of the ‘Manifesto’ today means treating it not as a sacred text, ….
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But, to repeat, classes are never frozen and fixed, they are constantly changing; and there is good reason to look forward to - and work for - developments through which working classes will increasingly acquire a broad emancipatory outlook, a spirit of revolution expressive of the full range of identities they comprise.
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What ‘The Communist Manifesto’ a hundred and fifty years ago called "stubborn historical facts" are break- ing through the illusions fostered by neo-liberal rhetoric-and equally through the pseudo-left illusions of "new times," "radicalism of the cen- ter, "the" third way "and all similar dreams of a capitalist world miraculously freed from alienation, immiseration, and crises. [2001]
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Too bad he couldn’t have a conversation with Leo Panitch. I think he could be straightened out. Although, and Panitch makes reference to the type, there are many who still believe as your student does and, like good Christians, they will not waiver from the path.
ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos) In Lockdown wrote: "Too bad he couldn’t have a conversation with Leo Panitch. I think he could be straightened out. Although, and Panitch makes reference to the type, there are many who still believe as your student d..."The irony of anyone who thinks themselves Marxists adopting a "religious" attitude to anything would be hilarious if it didn't have such tragic consequences....
Phil: This literally sounds like a scholastic whose opinions are all glosses on Aristotle
He also seems to think that Lenin could do no wrong and that the atrocities of the Soviet Union were all justifiable in the name of the greater good.
These two positions seem to me to be incompatible, since I don't think Leninism has very much at all to do with Marx's own thought, but what do I know...