Bugger.
I have to go back and read them again.
Big ask. I'm still reading vol 1 of Capital. But I will go back and do the Collected Works thing.
Bugger it.
I truly admire your grit for undertaking such a task, but unless you're planning on teaching poli-sci, I think you're wasting precious time you could devote to understanding the world as it exists today.
And if one truly wants to understand the world as it exists today, one must first understand the world as it existed yesterday.
Most political science theories end up being nothing more than the smokescreen behind which pragmatists hide while doing whatever the hell they think they must do at the moment to survive.
We can see how obviously this is true when we consider that Bush II, neo-cons' figurehead numbero uno, is in the process of socializing debts for people who claimed to be the captains of capitalism.
Now, Marx or Engles might think that that's the inevitable triumph of socialism over capitialism, but I think it's nothing more than the triumph of criminal classism over common cause common sense.
Did Marx or Engles imagine that we'd go from a capitalist industrialized world to a post industrial miscommunication society?
No, of course they didn't. Nobody could possible have known what our world would be like today in 1900.
Did they note that the probably outcome of this system is a form of neofeudalism masquarading as a world wide form of free market capitalist system?
No.
But that is likely where this world is headed. Now, notice I say, likely?
That's because I know that fate will flick its fickle finger, and leave us all breathless from whatever new development that absolutely NOBODY could have foreseen, which will be the next event that will dramatically change our collective fates.
Reality is just too damned unpredictable for any of us to assume there are historical imperitives guiding mankind from one collective fate or the other.
Thank GOD for that, too.
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