Has anybody got anything to say on this theme?
It could be Marx(ists) themselves, or the anarchist critique of...
Oct 26 2004 20:42
Oct 29 2004 09:58
There isn't equality under bolshevism, there is a set differential wage structure.
But what that has to do with marxism i don't know, because lenin wasn't structly a marxist, he abandoned large chunks of marxist theory.
And for me equality=bread=freedom, so yeah i think equality is what makes socialism.
But thats because i don't agree with rocker on this point, i think marx is correct and that materialism is sufficient and that people in a society are driven simply by material interests.
Ideology or pursuit of power or humanism are simply means to an end, they are not the end in itself.
john
Rocker talks about examples of history prior to bolshevism where there is equality, but under a harsh dictatorship - sound familar...
its in anarcho-syndicalism somewhere...but either way it shows without freedom, equality doesnt make socialism.