Greetings Economists,
On Nov 4, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
How do we
'prepare' for or move towards a mass movement that we cannot predict
the
coming of?
Doyle;
Of course we can 'predict' a movement. That amounts to building
organizations and making them viable and growing. And we can predict
capitalist crises as well. The current bubbles have been speculated
(predicted) about for quite a long time on the left. Wallerstein is a
good example of a well known predictor.
That said, the prediction is not so tidy as to be a mechanism that
remains essentially the same. As if we hunted elephants who remained
predictably elephants. Capitalism shifts and adds on increments of
ways of being over time. Transportation, manufacture, records
keeping, change over time. But the crises remain as a context of
living. The unemployment, racist structures, oppression of women,
remain as givens of the society of capitalism. Obama may win, but
racism is not cured by his movement upward in social ranks. That
certainty of racism persisting is a prediction of the state of things.
Nor do the efforts of various revolutionary movements not mean
anything. They can predict social change. Their size predicts social
change. Their mass predicts change.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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