At the conclusion of The Communist Necessity I wrote: "the window in which we can make revolution is closing as the world approaches the armageddon promised by the logic of capital." The intention of this claim was to point out the necessity of organizing in the face of capitalism's depletion of liveable existence, arguing that we needed to get our shit together because, due to capitalism's internal logic, it might be too late to continue waiting until the current mode of production has played its course. At that time I had not read Robert Biel's The Entropy of Capitalism ––though I had helped edit the second edition of his earlier manuscript, Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement ––and he was nice enough to write a blurb for the back of The Communist Necessity … I really wish I had read his most recent book, however, considering that The Entropy of Capitalism dove-tailed with the conclusion of my book. Yep, same picture as last post. Um… I thought I'
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist reflections