AtDtDA23: Mixed Feelings about History

[Dave Monroe]

   "Among the many superstitions inside this mountain was a belief
that the tunnel was 'neutral ground,' exempt not only from political
jurisdictions but from Time itself.  The Anarchists and the Socialists
on the shift had their own mixed feelings about history...." ((AtD,
Pt. III, p. 654)


"mixed feelings"

"Since the two principles, Authority and Liberty, which underlie all
forms organized society, are on the one hand contrary to each other,
in a perpetual state of conflict, and on the other can neither
eliminate each other nor be resolved, some kind of compromise between
the two is necessary. Whatever the system favored, whether it be
monarchical, democratic, communist or anarchist, its length of life
will depend to the extent to which it has taken the contrary principle
into account."  --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/proudhon/sp001863.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secHint.html
http://www.bibliolibertaire.org/Textes/proudhon_and_anarchism.rtf
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/blackchip/anarchist_theories_of_history.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/property/ch01.htm

Karl Marx, "On Proudhon" (1865)

"... in spite of all his apparent iconoclasm one already finds in
Qu'est-ce que la propriété'? the contradiction that Proudhon is
criticising society, on the one hand, from the standpoint and with the
eyes of a French small-holding peasant (later petit bourgeois) and, on
the other, that he measures it with the standards he inherited from
the socialists."

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_01_24.htm

Also ...

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1846/letters/46_05_05.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/letters/46_05_17.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/

And, in general ...

http://www.friesian.com/marx.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_history
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/marx.html
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/index.htm
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/smith6.htm


"They suffered from it, and it was also to be their liberator"

"The life of man is a battle, that of society a perpetual reformation;
let us therefore reform and go on reforming unceasingly."
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/proudhon/sp001863.html

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852)

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please;
they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under
circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an Alp on the brains
of the living...."

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/18-brum/ch01.htm


"survive to see the day"

Title thematic. To see the day History [Time] ended?

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_654

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840)

"The idea of justice, then, applied to sovereignty and government, has
not always been what it is to-day; it has gone on developing and
shaping itself by degrees, until it has arrived at its present state.
But has it reached its last phase? I think not: only, as the last
obstacle to be overcome arises from the institution of property which
we have kept intact, in order to finish the reform in government and
consummate the revolution, this very institution we must attack."

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/property/ch01.htm

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)

"Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the
revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding
to this is also a political transition period in which the state can
be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm

Pierre-Joesph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the
Nineteenth Century (1851)

"... to dissolve, submerge, and cause to disappear the political or
governmental system in the economic system, by reducing, simplifying,
decentralizing and suppressing, one after another, all the wheels of
this giant machine, which is called the Government or the State."

http://fair-use.org/p-j-proudhon/general-idea-of-the-revolution/social-liquidation

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)

"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving
subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and with it
also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished,
after labor has become not only a livelihood but life's prime want,
after the productive forces have increased with the all-round
development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative
wealth flow more abundantly--only then can the narrow horizon of
bourgeois law be left behind in its entirety and society inscribe on
its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to
his needs!"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm

Friederich Engels, Anti-Düring (1877)

"The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away."

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/index.htm

V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm#s4

Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?" (1989)

http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm
http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/vsteffel/web597/Fukuyama_history.pdf
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/fukuyama.htm