[Marxism] Marx's Questionnaire, was Re: Why Gay Marriage

[Carrol Cox]

I came across the volume by accident. S.Artesian is correct. MECW 24, p.
328. My memory (as usual) was fairly fucked up but had some fragments
correct. It was shorter than I remember Ollman saying, but still quite
long: 4 sections totalling 99 questions, one of which has 6
sub-questions. The questions are all "thought" questions through which
the worker analyzes his/her own conditions and places them in some sort
of context. I have only browsed through it so far, but it looks
potentially powerful as a propaganda device in small grouo discussion.

Incidentally, and I'm going to be vague on this too. I remember reading
a brief report on an SDS (J.O.I.N.) project, I think in Baltimore, which
utilized some form of questionnaire in door-to-door canvassing and had
some success with it. This sort of thing should be kept in mind for when
a new movement with some coherence begins in the u.s. for various forms
of organizing -- but particularly, I think, for door-to-door work. I'm
only a pessimist in the short run (which since  I'm 78 is sort of the
long run for me personally). Ollman does point out in one book that real
periods of change ALWAYS catcvh everyone by surprise and are NEVER
predicted ahead of time.

Carrol

Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Pance Stojkovski wrote:
> >
> > >> Carrol Cox wrote
> > >> in fact Marx himself prepared a questionnaire of (if I
> > >> remember correctly) some 200 questions which was designed to
> > >> transform the person answering the questions.
> >
> > > David Picón Álvarez wrote:
> > > Is this somewhere in the MIA? I'd be quite curious to
> > > read it.
> > >
> >
> > I'm curious too. I searched MIA and found this in Volume 24:
> > http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume24/index.htm
> >
> > but the relevant chapter has not been transcribed yet:
> > Workers' Questionnaire (Marx) - page 328.
> >
> > Is that it?
> 
> I don't know. What is the date? My fucking eyes are so bad I can't even
> read the volume #s clearly on the MECW, and I've apparently misplaced
> Vol. 24. As I remember Ollman's presentation, it was written during the
> last year or two of Marx's life. Jan is away for the weekend. When she
> returns I'll ask her to look through the volumes for it.
> 
> Carrol
> 
> >
> > pance.
> >
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