Mark is one of those who believe that we only have to establish
the *reasons* for revolution and make enough people aware
of those reasons, and revolution will come. It seems to follow
from such a perspective, at least for many, that a crash of the
capitalist system (or, focusing on oil, of the industrial system)
will demonstrate those reasons, and revolution will follow.
The very name of this maillist seems to carry that assumption.
But only capitalist investors are moved by visions of the future.
Resistance to capitalism must be driven by resistance to the
*present*, not hope for or fear of the future. Obsession with
the future, whether in hope or in fear, individualizes, and that
is why Crash always brings not resistance but reaction. It is
in the stage of *recovery* from the Crash that resistance
becomes possible. Mass struggles (whether or not they rise
to the level of revolution) occur when the world (at least in
appearance) seems to be improving. The CIO did not arise
from 1930-1935, when all seemed utterly hopeless. It was
in those years when a manager at Republic Steel stood on
a platform behind a high fence and threw twenty-five bright
new quarters to the mob of men outside the gate. The 25
men who came out of the resulting scramble clutching one
of those quarters was hired. Resistance does not come
from workers fighting each other for quarters tossed out
by Capital. In the years after 1934 there *seemed* at
least to be hope of recovery (there was limited recovery
before the recession of 1938), and mass resistance rose.
Revolution, if it is ever to come, must come *before* the kind
of crash Mark foresees. We need a revolution of rising
expectations -- not visions of disaster -- to bring about
successful resistance to capital.
Carrol
Mark Jones wrote:
> ask one million French workers on the streets today.
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