raghu wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Empirically absolute poverty has _never_ generated resisitance. To > > repeat, reistance depends on _visible_ hope, not merely promise. > > > > What about the freedom movements in the Third World? I am afraid I > could never personally align myself with any movement that worked for > the interests of, say GM employees, rather than peasants/workers in > the Third World who may be powerless, but nevertheless deserve our > support more than anyone else.
Without "petty bourgeois" elements and, especially, without middle peasant leadershhip, those revolutions would never even have begun. It was very difficult to get poor peasant involvement in the Chnese Revolution. The least elements to "give up" in France 68 were TV station workers. Don't pick out some special group, whether GM workers, teachers, or street sweepers, in advance. You are just generating "oughts" out of your own head rather than examining how social movements actually work. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
