Re: Immanuel Wallerstein's "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit"

Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:54:21 +0530 (IST)
d.parthasarathy (dp@hss.iitb.ernet.in)

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Carl H.A. Dassbach wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M.A.&N.G. Jones <Jones_M@netcomuk.co.uk>
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Immanuel Wallerstein's "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of
> Production: No Exit"

> >look forward to seeing the expressions on our faces when that day comes. I
> hope
> >said proles remember that 'as someone said' (as IW likes to say, when he
> >actually means Karl Marx), 'political power grows out of the barrel of a
> gun'.
>
>
> The quote, btw, is from Mao. Marx lacked the practical revolutionary
> experience needed to make such an observation.
>

The actual quote is "power flows from the barrel of a gun".

D.Parthasarathy