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

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