Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 17:05:19 -0700
From: JDevine-AT-lmumail.lmu.edu (James Devine)
Subject: Re[2]: left and right swings


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Scott Marshall says:>> I'm sure the particulars of the left/right odessy is 
often as you describe it. The classlessness of the process you describe 
fits perfectly with my point. <<

I wasn't meaning to contradict what you said.

>>I have not often seen this process with shopworkers or trade unionists 
because their convictions are most often rooted in their very being as 
workers. They have no choice to rant "the workers aren't listening to what 
I'm saying even though...etc." <<

Yeah, but they can be betrayed by the left organization's leaders or suffer 
due to other disasters.  My point is that one reason why leftists sometimes 
become rightists can be left sectarianism. Even more, I'm trying to say 
that "every day life" involves more than class, even if class ends up being 
most important in the end. 

>>BTW I don't take noting this to be a negative. In times of great working 
class upsurge and fightback (such as I believe we are entering now) the 
working class exerts greater appeal and influence on the middle 
strata...<<

I hope your belief is right, since we need an upsurge badly. What signs do 
you see?

for socialism from below,

Jim Devine   jdevine-AT-lmumail.lmu.edu
Los Angeles, CA (the city of emphysema)

     
     
     
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