28-02-2017, 04:24 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:The Return of American Race Laws
Presidential chief strategist Stephen Bannon, in his public comments and his films such as "Generation Zero," has embraced a historical determinism worthy of Karl Marx.
I'm not a marxist scholar, but isn't this a misreading of Marx's historical materialism? From http://www.isreview.org/issues/58/gasper...nism.shtml
[size=12][size=12][size=12] "One of the most common misconceptions about Marxism is that it is a deterministic theory that sees the course of history as preordained by economic and social forces. According to one recent commentator, for example, "In Marx's theory, the oppressed class does not need to hope for social justice as merely a tentative possibility, because the laws of history are on their side and guarantee the outcome." [/SIZE]
[size=12] Misinterpretations like this are often based on isolated quotations from Marx's writings taken out of context, such as the passage in the Communist Manifesto that declares, "the victory of the proletariat [is] inevitable." But this statement is simply a rhetorical flourish aimed at spurring on the Manifesto's readers, since a few pages earlier Marx and Engels had already pointed out that the class struggle has no predetermined result, and can end "either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes." [/SIZE]
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