Friday, December 4, 2015

End, Means, Socialism

As has been previously discussed, Trotsky, in asserting that there are some means that Socialism does not justify, conceives the relation between Means and End as a continuum, of which the former is an earlier phase, and the latter, the final one.  Now, though not himself a Marxist, Dewey deepens that analysis, arguing that the split of the two phases reflects a separation of Classes--the Working class, and the Leisure class whose ends the former serves.  So, implicit in Dewey's analysis is an insight that Trotsky misses--the abolition of Classes in Socialism, and the integration of Means and End in action, are systematically related.

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