On 3/20/13 5:02 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > Lou, you write: "Instead we study what happened in Flint, Michigan in > 1936 and 1937 when workers occupied factories and battled the cops > and National Guard." 1936-37 was the peak of a strong recovery from > the 1933 low. Employment was up over 30%, and GDP over 40%, from its > trough. Bad times often provoke reaction, not militancy. Sad to say, > the major political beneficiaries of the Greek crisis so far have > been Golden Dawn, not Syriza.
Massive unemployment does not automatically create socialist revolutions or even socialist parties. If this were the case, there would not be any need to do anything except walk around like one of those New Yorker cartoon characters with a long beard and a sandwich sign saying "The End is Near", the impression you get of the left from Lilley's polemics. All that attacks on working people does is open them up to alternative interpretations of the system. Then the rest is up to us. In terms of Greece, the barometer of support for SYRIZA versus Golden Dawn should be measured by their votes, not how much coverage they are receiving in the press. SYRIZA popular vote: 1,655,022 percentage: 26.89% Golden Dawn: popular vote: 426,025 percentage: 6.92% _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
