Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 20:02:06 -0700
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From: CHRIS CHASE-DUNN <CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU>
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Subject:      wagar and the future
 
the ides of march are here. Bob Ross has read Wagar but what about the
rest of you? Bob says it is not art. Maybe not but it is a lot easier
for my undergraduates to read than most the stuff I force on them.
Bob says that Wagar does not deal with the FACT (in the minds of many)
that socialism failed in the Soviet Union. To this I would say that it is
a true psychological limitation of the present but I wonder how loong this
will
last. The socialism of the future will be different than the socialism of
the past and it will examine why the experiments went wrong and what went
right. the current funk will pass with the ideological hegemony of
neo-liberalism. New forms of organization will emerge and old forms will
be revitalized. there will be new socialist revolutions in the semiperiphery
and new labor movements and socialist parties everywhere. They may not use
the word "socialist." But they will try to make a more cooperative and
collectively rational world.
My question about wagar is this. how can we do RED EARTH without having to
go through 2044?
      chris chase-dunn   chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu