Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Jean Jaures - liberal socialist

I like to think of anarchism as liberalism pushed to its logical conclusions. I've been reading an article about Jean Jaures by Rutgers' Geoffrey Kurtz and I'm liking what I'm reading.

Jaures (i don't know how to insert accent marks with a keyboard) spoke of being in a "socialist state of grace" which meant to respond to capitalist society as a participant in it, but a participant who has a higher ideal in mind than capitalism (with all its oppressions and inequalities) which is socialism and which compels one to constantly demand more from the system.

I said something similar here. It's a never-ending struggle for humanity.

3 comments:

Abuabasabat said...

Impotens ad nihil clamat.

thwap said...

i have no idea what that means.

Abuabasabat said...

It means: sei un pazzo stronzo.