Quote: (02-19-2015 06:47 AM)Deluge Wrote:
@Benoit his comments display the opposite of what you think it does, because he's a Socialist. His rhetoric is 100% in line with the typical Socialist thinking: that social democracy is reformist and doomed to fail, and will only lead to neoliberalism and more capitalism, so therefore we need a socialist revolution and a full socialization of the means of production.
I agree with what you're saying, but unlike the vast majority of socialist-academics, he's held down real jobs and not gone straight from marxist education into lefty politics without ever experiencing the real world as an adult.
I still remain hopeful, and in the worst case we will have Greece as an example of a 'modern socialist country' whose failure will be another nail in the coffin of applied Marxism.
"I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak." - Arnold