Re: Bourgeois Democracy or Dictatorship?

1997-11-05 Thread Tom Walker
max wrote, left is invisible, and the labor movement is starting to eat a few Wheaties (sorry for technical terminology) but has a good ways to go before it can leap over tall buildings. It would A grainier expression would be that it is not yet "feeling its oats". Regards, Tom Walker

Re: Bourgeois Democracy or Dictatorship?

1997-11-05 Thread maxsaw
Jim, Rather than revolutionary pressure, you cite 'outside the beltway' agitation as a force for positive change, which I wouldn't deny. However, under present circumstances we don't observe such agitation around Fast Track, so we (i.e., you) have to consider the possibility that

(Fwd) Re: Bourgeois Democracy or Dictatorship?

1997-11-05 Thread maxsaw
Mike E. said: Max, perhaps I am losing my ability to discern your tongue-in-cheek wit from your serious argument, but if this is a series argument, I am surprised it Serious as a heat rash, though you were not the sort of person I had in mind as an implicit target. I was most interested in

Re: Bourgeois Democracy or Dictatorship?

1997-11-05 Thread Michael Eisenscher
At 11:40 AM 11/5/97 +, maxsaw wrote: Comrades, It is said that when the U.S. government does something good or fails to do something bad, it is only as a concession to an incipient proletarian-revolutionary movement. When it fails to do something good or elects to do something bad, on

Bourgeois Democracy or Dictatorship?

1997-11-05 Thread James Devine
Max writes: It is said that when the U.S. government does something good or fails to do something bad, it is only as a concession to an incipient proletarian-revolutionary movement. When it fails to do something good or elects to do something bad, on the other hand, it is said to merely be acting

Bourgeois Democracy or Dictatorship?

1997-11-05 Thread maxsaw
Comrades, It is said that when the U.S. government does something good or fails to do something bad, it is only as a concession to an incipient proletarian-revolutionary movement. When it fails to do something good or elects to do something bad, on the other hand, it is said to merely be