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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 04:34 AM Jan 2016

Rest in Power, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Marxist scholar, historian, and comrade.


Here is an excerpt from her piece in Against the Current, 1987:

"Socialism will be the first social form since the advent of class society whose reproduction as a social system is endangered rather than enhanced by relations and ideologies of domination and oppression... For at least these reasons, I conclude that the struggle for socialism, as the most potentially comprehensive emancipatory project we have, is central to the struggle for human emancipation and hence that class politics is the primary means of advancing, and uniting, the various emancipatory struggles."

https://www.solidarity-us.org/pdfs/cadreschool/wood1.pdf
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