Greetings Economists,
On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Sabri Oncu wrote:
Too bad that there is no LEFT, either in the US or globally, except
Venezuelan and some Latin American left maybe, to speak of to force
capitalism to change, so who knows what will happen from now on?
Doyle;
I think we need to say now what will happen from now on. Not 'who
knows'.
We know this, the reformist agenda has risen to the top in the U.S.
and neo-liberal free markets ideology is in free fall. Reformism will
offer limited options in the face of a major global capitalist crisis.
First off, neo-liberalism was based upon hegemonic nations asserting
world domination. This seems to me the reformers can't repudiate
because they can't abandon U.S. hegemonic ambitions. This means
first, a global strategy for left goals. To support global equality or
development in lieu of hegemonic dominance. The South American
tendency offers a good view of what close cooperation might lead to
for developing countries as opposed to Eurocentric power sharing at
the expense of the majority of the planet.
Within the U.S. the pillars of reformist power are shaking and
vulnerable to critical judgments. Does the military really require
all this money when it can't win these wars? Can we really afford to
let financial capital run things when it leads to disaster?
While these comments are broad this represents what a left can do
going forward, represent a radical vision that works. Ask all people
who don't have power and in a depression that we want to unite for a
new vision. A class based vision that takes as an important example
how radicals like Chavez really show us the road forward. In this way
it is time to proudly stand up for the left everywhere again. A left
that is now divorced from the 20th century errors mistakes and
follies. Divorced by collapses and failures but enduring in the
hearts of people who need more.
We have a responsibility to the working class now to organize which is
an old old cry, but in the context of these conditions to globalize
the process and make the answer non-hegemonic and totalizing beyond
the nation state stage of history.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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