Re: [Marxism] ARE WE ON THE BRINK OF A RENEWED WAVE OF RADICALISATION WITHIN BRITAIN UNDER THE SURFACE OF INCREASING REACTION?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 7:55 AM Mark Lause via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > . . . > Electoral politics will open only after we get and sustain those mass > mobilizations. I'm hopeful, because there's plenty of sentiment for > radical change. However, there's no strategic understanding of independent > movements and virtually zero understanding of how to go about the work of > building them. > Right on, Mark. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] ARE WE ON THE BRINK OF A RENEWED WAVE OF RADICALISATION WITHIN BRITAIN UNDER THE SURFACE OF INCREASING REACTION?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The popularity of Sanders created great opportunities for the Left in the U.S., which it flubbed up and still flubs up. The chance that the Democrats would permit him (or likely Warren) to get the nomination is less than the prospect of Yellowstone erupting. Should he (or any "progressive") get the nomination, we have absolutely no reason to imagine that the Democratic hierarchy will do anything other than McGovern them . . . that is, it would extend no more than the most minimal support, and then use the defeat as an excuse for moving ever more Biden-ward next time. And if, by some stretch of the imagination, we were to find ourselves with a President Sanders in 2021, he will face a Congress divided between a Trumpified GOP and an essentially Nixonized-Reaganized Democratic caucus. And we have no reason to think that Sanders would embrace a strategy of mass mobilizations. Electoral politics will open only after we get and sustain those mass mobilizations. I'm hopeful, because there's plenty of sentiment for radical change. However, there's no strategic understanding of independent movements and virtually zero understanding of how to go about the work of building them. Cheers, Mark L. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] ARE WE ON THE BRINK OF A RENEWED WAVE OF RADICALISATION WITHIN BRITAIN UNDER THE SURFACE OF INCREASING REACTION?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Bless Anthony. Reading him is like stepping into into the Tardus and whipping off to a vanished era. We are always trembling on the brink of a revolutionary break through. If only. Still who knows. I have noticed that I am slowly transferring my hopes to Sanders in the USA. I can see the frown on Comrade Proyect's face. I honestly have no illusions in Sanders or any Democrat. Honestly none. But the very thought of Trump makes me sick. Only a tad sicker than the thought of President Biden I hasten to add. But I am desperate for some hope - any hope. Happy new year to all comrades on the list. comradely Gary On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 9:16 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > > https://anthonybrainapplyingtrotskyismfortodayandtommorw.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/are-we-on-the-brink-of-a-renewed-wave-of-radicalisation-within-britain-under-the-surface-of-increasing-reaction-by-anthony-brain/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
