Improved Clinch

Still Not Getting It

What follows is a quote, posted by Ken MacLeod, from Nahuel Moreno, an “Argentine Trotskyist.” The quote is taken from a long series of thesis by Moreno with titles like "It’s time to build mass Trotskyist parties, taking profit of the opportunities," or "Holocaust or Trotskyism. A coercive necessity: the conquest of the cosmos," from which the following was gleaned.

"Only Trotskyism, conducting the proletariat, will make it possible for mankind to enter into the stage of the conquest of the cosmos, that means, the creation of artificial satellites with a quality of life as good as on earth, that will collect solar energy and send it to earth by microwaves in order to have an energy nearly free of charge and in infinite quantity. Capitalism did have a progressive role because it meant the conquest of the whole planet, fundamentally America, Africa and Asia, for a new kind of production. It was a great challenge to which capitalism has given the response in its progressive stage. Socialist mankind has a still greater challenge, the greatest one ever hold by mankind: at the very moment when the continuation of the imperialist regime or of the bureaucratic regimes puts us in front of the holocaust of the human race, Trotskyism points out the possibility for the greatest jump made by mankind, the conquest of the universe by socialism."

Makes about as much sense as the Bush plan to go to Mars.

Posted by on 03/08 at 07:36 AM