We know it will happen, and while we know that we would all like to minimize it that is not what we are told by the right, we are told that we intend to murder as many people as possible to create a utopia, I do not know were exactly this information comes from but it seems to be what people are believing. As we know many people will hold it against Che that he ordered many executions, but it was him who said "The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth" So is it also that "The well being of all human beings is worth a million times more than the life of any one man on earth"?
« Last Edit: December 15, 2009, 04:25:24 PM by Christopher Hill »
On this topic I would recommend Trotsky's If America should go Communist written in 1934. There are some good perspectives in this document. It's also found in the back of Alan Woods' Marxism and the USA which is also highly recommendable.
The less deaths in a revolution the better. Realistically, as Trotsky states, the ruling class will stop fighting as soon as they stop finding people to fight for them. Revolution in the US won't come before the material conditions are there for it. A series of quantitative changes in living standard etc. will lead to qualitative burst of struggle.
I actually have read that particular article and agree with it's premise, but I wish to gauge the attitudes towards this on this site and see if the people here know of a way to easily explain this, as we know falsification and clouding of information is one of the most often used tools of the bourgeois.
Logged
