tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post6416118774921964891..comments2024-03-29T03:55:28.210-07:00Comments on ZZ's blog: Response to Davidson and Dr. Scotchzoltan zigedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376602245528691381noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-79021396604718005212009-12-27T10:16:38.824-08:002009-12-27T10:16:38.824-08:00Well I agree but I about the post should secure mo...Well I agree but I about the post should secure more info then it has.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-36675152129963743712009-03-15T14:39:00.000-07:002009-03-15T14:39:00.000-07:00I have my own criticism of the Nation's picks for ...I have my own criticism of the Nation's picks for snapshot views on socialism. But the reason anyone would have to look into things is that there's only so much you can say in a relatively short piece. I especially thought Fletcher could have done more, but he was teamed up with Ehrenreich, and perhaps that limited both of them.<BR/><BR/>In any case, to answer your question, yes, I think their piece got lots of people digging into books about socialism. The Nation articles are being reposted all over the web. As for Tariq Ali, I've never seen much from him apart from militant anti-imperialism, so apart from warmed over Trotsky, I wouldn't know what to expect from him. Maybe there's something I've missed.<BR/><BR/>But for my two cents, I'm especially tired of hearing that no one has a plan, or at least a set of working hypotheses, when it's now 20 years since the onset of the crisis in socialism.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps I'm just grousing that the Nation didn't ask me. I'd have spelled out something affirmative for them along the lines of David Schweickart's 'After Capitalism,' which I think is a decent outline and a decent organizing principle for a 21st century socialism. I think all serious socialists should read it and take a stand on it--good, bad or in between.<BR/><BR/>Then I'd offer up a number of strategic and tactical pieces, including a few of my own, for a working plan of how to get from here to there. Many of the pieces we came up with from serious study post-1989 are located at http://net4dem.org/cyrev if anyone's interested.<BR/><BR/>What I don't like is the idea that we can segment things into real and 'sham' socialisms according to some Coda from a coherence theory of truth. I'd much rather that theorists just say where they want to go, and how they'd plan to get there.Carl Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00215874972566616424noreply@blogger.com