Originally Posted by saoq

i was reading the thread this morning and well.. let me add one or two things/

anyway what's essential today in marx's thinking is not the so called "scientific" conclusions (most of which were wrong) or his economical analysis.

there's a limit where Marx goes well beyond "science" or politics, a limit that's all that's needed for a revolutionary project

check out this quote from the german ideology:

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."

one can speak of the communist gestures people make in their everyday -or not so everyday- life : collaborating against the boss, skip work, sharing a house, building a barricade together, throwing stones to the cops.