[Xmca-l] Re: Views are requested.

[Andy Blunden]

Dave, this is not a list where you can get a coherent answer
to your question - there are very many different answers,

I suggest you browse the various views that historically
have been put forward here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

Andy

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 31/08/2018 12:12 AM, Harshad Dave wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> This is with reference to the article “The Working Class
> Strikes Back” by Chris Wright.
>
> (Link: https://www.academia.edu/37306144/The_Working_Class_Strikes_Back)
>
> USSR and China were the two countries that passed through
> the revolution and socialist rule prevailed there. Both
> the countries faced hard time initially, achieved progress
> also and ultimately they had to bring some compromise,
> somewhere in between capitalism and Socialism perhaps. I
> think there must be impartial study and review in this
> matter i. e. where the things went wrong. I have tried at
> my level and I put my views as follow,
> Generally, if a fresh and impartial young person goes
> through the socialist literature in books, articles,
> speeches and correspondences, he will surely get one
> impression. If I narrate the impression in one sentence,
> it might read as….,
> “The capitalistic society is constituted in two tents
> named “bourgeois tent” and “proletariat tent”. The
> bourgeois are the root cause of grief and peril of this
> society. Proletariat should take over the rule of the
> society in their hand and they should regulate and control
> the social system in compliance with socialist policy and
> principles.”
> Personally I am neither in favor of bourgeois nor opponent
> of proletariat, I have studied the nature, choices and
> intentions of proletariat, they are good people but they
> are not immune from capitalistic mind set. I do not
> criticize them for that because it has to be that only.
> Likewise, bourgeois are exploitative and moral less people
> but both (bourgeois and proletariat) are product of social
> evolution.
> It is the great mistake forefathers of socialism did and
> that is exclusively concentrating on the above two tents.
> In fact reasons of social peril lie elsewhere. Existence
> of two tents of bourgeois and proletariat is the resultant
> product of social evolution. Even if proletariat
> successfully take over the rule of a society in their
> hand, the fundamental reasons of the root cause of the
> social peril still remains there. When socialism does not
> have knowledge of these reasons, how they will be able to
> establish a social structure that they dream.
> Your views will support to arrive near to the fact finding.
> With true regards,
>  
>
>
> Harshad Dave
> Email: hhdave15@gmail.com <mailto:hhdave15@gmail.com>
>

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