Carrol Cox wrote: > > brad wrote: >> Sorry I thought that when you said that a 'jobless recovery' and that >> an economic crisis would cause misery for millions, perhaps billions, >> of people who would be driven to mass depoliticization as people >> scurried to find individual solutions to ride out the bad times you >> were talking about workers. > > I was. That says nothing about the power of workers. That power depends > on collective efforts. I suggest you read the old song, "Solidarity > Forever." It does _not_ say that solidarity is automatic. >
I think that I might have mentioned this before but Carrol's schema is correct if it is based on a snapshot of the American working class in the early stages of the Great Depression when the shock of unemployment left it atomized and cowered. By 1934 the tide had turned. More to the point, there *will be no revolution* in imperialist nations as long as the system delivers the goods. If an economic crisis of massive proportion does set in, there will be no effective response as long as the leadership is willing to compromise with the system as the CPUSA did in the 1930s. Our job now is to begin constructing a genuine radical political movement that will not stop short of the goal of finally bring the system to an end. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
