Louis Proyect wrote: > > > By this logic, Switzerland should be home to the most radical working > class in the world rather than devastated Greece. Yodeelaydeehoo.
a) It wasn't logic but an empirical claim b) I only affirmed a _negative_, with no implications beyond that. A slump will _not_ for several years energize or politicize workers. It never has. c) No one knows the conditons under which periods of left upsurge occur; they seem to vary quite widely. In any case, they are not predictable. d) Day dreams about the collapse of Capitalism or the spontaneous uprising of the working class obstruct clear thought. We can think clearly about what we _can_ do if we are realistic about what we can't, at a given time, do. e) All my statements are about a given time period in agiven place. There is no science of revolution or of mass movements; no general theory that can cover future movements. If there were the theorists of M-L would be correct; you and dI both agree they are not. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
