TAHIR WOOD wrote:
> But actually the
> more decisive events, e.g. Russia, China, Vietnam, have
> occurred when conditions were pretty bad for the people.
> This was also true of the French revolution, by the way.
Tahir, you confuse "pretty bad conditions" with the *direction*
of change in conditions. In all these revolutions I think you will
find that they gathered momentum at a time when conservatives
(who also think mere bad conditions explain revolution) would
afterwards whine something to the effect, "Why did people
revolt just when things were getting better." Objectively,
conditions may have been worse in the U.S. in the second
half of the '30s than in the first half, at least no better, but
there was a half-hearted recovery during Roosevelt's first
term, his rhetoric was wonderful, and that faint difference may
be said to have powered the upsurge of the CIO and of
the CPUSA at that time.
Carrol
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