Re: lumps in the gravy -- uneveness and interimperialist war

spectors wrote:

> >> I  truly wish it was coming down to the end game as Andy suggests, with a
> >> united global revolutionary egalitarian (I still like Marx' use of the
> word
> >> communist) movement preparing to battle a global capitalist class.  I
> just
> >> think that such a scenario vastly oversimplifies the contradictions
> within
> >> contradictions that still riddle the capitalist world.
> 
> Pat Gunning writes:
> 
> >One hopes that this is not a wish for war.
> 
> Pat, and others: The wars are here. There are 40 wars going on with the
> needless deaths of hundreds of thousands every year. And there are the
> chronic, "low intensity" wars, such as the mass murder of thousands of
> Colombians, Kurds, etc. every year. Then there are the tens of millions who
> die prematurely from malnutrition, disease, created diseases from pollution
> and other causes, unnecessary injuries, and poor medical care. All a product
> of the class system that some people seem to think no longer exists. Nobody
> wishes for the violent deaths of innocent people. But if the war does not
> appear to be one one's own front porch, it is too easy to think that a happy
> peace prevails and to wish that the status quo would be maintained, even
> though the deaths of innocents continues to proceed with no end in sight.
> Was the U.S. Civil War a good event or a bad event? It killed hundreds of
> thousands. It saved many more lives. It is just too easy to dismiss the
> misery and deaths of others if fighting to end that misery might upset the
> peace of a few others.

There are wars, but not the end game to which you referred. What do you
suggest that we do about the current unpleasantries and unthinkables?
Austin appears to want to promote a revolution. Here is what he wrote:

"That the globalization of the capitalist mode of production creates the
objective possibility for socialism in no way guarantees socialism -- we
have to make socialism happen."

-- 
Pat Gunning, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
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