how many global class struggles? (fwd)

what about operationalizing "global class struggle first"?

BTW, i do not think that quantification should be a problem for many on
the left--at least for scientific marxists. marx and engels analyzed
capitalism by relying on the scientific methods of their time, albeit
utilizing them in a critical manner. marxism is not a speculatory
thought, nor is it an anti-positivist utopia. it is as scientific as 
bourgeois science's claim to be _the scientific_.  

regards,

Mine Aysen Doyran
phd candidate
dept of pol scie
SUNY/Albany
Graduate School-Nelson A. Rockefeller College
md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu

>Quantification, I know, is a bad word for many on the left; sort of like
>a
>red cloth for a bull in a bullfight. However, quantification has its
>discrete charms -- for example in the following question: How many class
>struggles are there in the world(-)system at the present time?

>Here are some pre-fabricated multiple-choice answers, the kind of test
>questions used in "new learning technologies":

>Q: How many global class struggles are there at the
>present time?

>Answers: CIRCLE ONE
>(a) 0
>(b) 1
>(c) 2
>(d) 30-40
>(e) 185
>(f)  1000 or more
>(g) all of the above
>(h) none of the above
>(i) other, please specify and explain