Hal Draper Zitate

Hal Draper Zitate

Hal Draper war ein US-amerikanischer Sozialist, Marxismusforscher, Autor und Übersetzer.

Seine bekanntesten Werke sind die vierbändige Studie Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, daneben sein kürzerer Essay Die zwei Seelen des Sozialismus, in denen er autoritäre und anti-autoritäre Sozialismusvarianten voneinander abgrenzt. Daneben erstellte er eine Neuübersetzung der Lyrik Heinrich Heines ins Englische.

In den USA war er Mitglied folgender Organisationen: :

Young People's Socialist League

Socialist Workers Party

Workers Party später in Independent Socialist League umbenannt

Socialist Party of America

Free Speech Movement Berkeley 1964

Independent Socialists

International Socialists Wikipedia

✵ 19. September 1914 – 26. Januar 1990

“The fact is that the choice between Socialism-from-Above and Socialism-from-Below is, for the intellectual, basically a moral choice, whereas for the working masses who have no social alternative it is a matter of necessity. The intellectual may have the option of "joining the Establishment" where the worker does not; the same option holds also for labor leaders, who, as they rise out of their class, likewise confront a choice that did not exist before. The pressure of conformity to the mores of the ruling class, the pressure for bourgeoisification, is stronger in proportion as personal and organizational ties with the ranks below become weak. It is not hard for an intellectual or bureaucratized official to convince himself that permeation of and adaptation to the existing power is the smart way to do it, when (as it happens) it also permits sharing in the perquisites of influence and affluence.”

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Hal Draper

Hal Draper, " The Two Souls of Socialism https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1966/twosouls/index.htm," New Politics 5, no. 1 (Winter 1966), 57-84.