brad wrote: > > So? > > Carrol > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So, we've reached a situation or stage where protests in one country > threatens the whole of capitalism.
Nonsense. It is true that an economic crisis in one place can, potentially, plunge the whole world economy into deep crisis. That would cause misery for millions, perhaps billions, of people around the world. That misery could go on a long time, with minor variations. Or the variations could be fairly sharp in the "economy" but not help many people. We've all heard the phrase, "jobless recovery." A lot of individual capitalists and capitalist firms might go down the tubes as well. The chief political effect of this for a number of years would be mass depoliticization as people scurried to find indiviudal solutions to riding out the bad times. It represents no particular threat to Capitalism as a social system at all. The political terrain is still that whihc I have come to call The Interval. This is the normal state of affairs under capitalism, such brief periods as The '60s or the middle '30s being the exception. The most visible feature of such periods is that nothing that leftists do can or will have an impact on current affairs. Nevertheless what leftists do is of great importance, for their activity profoundly affects the shape that the inevitable period of change takes. It is essentiall to make left activity visible, for activists to be recruited into various local groups. (I'm not sure whether national organization makes any diffrence at this time.) Campaigns of various sort have to be continuously launched however futile they prove to be, since the future is unpredictable and largely affected by contingency. Those who launched the Montgomery bus strike or the campaign to stop the execution of Caryl Chessman or the campaiign to abolish HUAC or those who utterly failed in their efforts tobuild an anti-war movement against the U.S. war in Korea achieved nothing and could not have known at the time that they were nevertheless in the end igniting the most powerful (though multi-faceted leftist movement in U.S. history. How does the (perhaps) further collapse of the world economy relate to this. And your next statement is pathetic: > Note that I did not say a > revolution, but just the threat of people standing up to capital and > its state apparatus. If we had any sort of organized international > solidarity . . . If wishes were horses beggrs would ride. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
