Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:20:14 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Labor & politics: Louis R Godena wrote: >Of course, this is the same "long run" in which, as EH Carr >reminded us, we will all be dead. It was Keynes, and it's one of his most misunderstood remarks. > >Rather than embark on a long and arduous search for signs of labor's revival >-- the history of the past twenty years has not been innocent of such >examples; they do not yet add up to a revolutionary change in the direction >of the workers' movement, one might simply ask what the workers themselves >are willing to do on their own behalf? It is clear that, while the modern >"proletariat" is willing to "struggle" for a better wage and benefit >package, willing, in effect, to vote for it, march for it, and sign >petitions for it, they are not yet willing to kill for it. Kill for it? Exactly whom should a revolutioanry mass in the U.S. or any other First World country kill? Isn't it kind of rushing things to talk about violent revolution in a country like this? But if this country weren't quite like this, if it were in some sort of prerevolutionary ferment, who knows how the masses would react? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <mailto:dhenwood-AT-panix.com> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html> --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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