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Socialist Progressives

rogerashton

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2. As Marx observes,

Reply to F4lconF16 (Reply #1)

Mon May 11, 2015, 06:00 AM

May 2015

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm

Stick with DU, F4lconF16 -- we need your ruthless skepticism, and I mean ruthless "in a good way." Nevertheless, that is one of the reasons to support Bernie: coming from where we are, he seems to be capable of shifting the range of "acceptable opinion," bringing words like "socialist" and "political revolution" into the discussion.

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Chomsky 'the spectrum of acceptable opinion' [View all] Ichingcarpenter May 2015 OP

THIS! F4lconF16 May 2015 #1

As Marx observes, rogerashton May 2015 #2

I was discussing that with one of the guys from the ISO the other day. F4lconF16 May 2015 #4

Hey, man, I was speaking to YOUR point rogerashton May 2015 #5

those words ring true more everyday olddots May 2015 #3