Japan's economy in free fall

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Fri Sep 18 11:29:20 PDT 1998


Would you say it would have been possible to appropriate the bourgeoisie or make socialism at anytime in history ? 1800? 1848? 1900? 1950 ? Is the unimaginability of socialism new with the situation in 1998 ? Has socialism ever been imaginable ? Can you imagine it being imaginable in the future ?

If it was imaginable at another time how do you imagine it then ? Then we can extrapolate to 1998 .

Ok if evoking "socialism" or "expropriation" doesn't give substance to a program what to you are the goals of the "Left" that is observing business here ? Can you imagine a Left program replacing the current program that the U.S. and most of the world are run on ? What is it ? If not, why are we doing this left observation of business ? What is the purpose of Left observation of business ?

Charles Brown

Detroit

Imagine the Western Workers instituting a Left program.


>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 09/18 1:49 PM >>>
Charles Brown wrote:


>How might these crises be resolved
>in some way other than leaving
>capitalist relations of production
>in place ? What is the outline of
>a macroeconomic shift to
>expropriating the expropriators ?
>Assume for a moment that the workers of the world
>just suddenly wake up and are ready
>to rumble. How would you advise
>them to do it ?

As I've tried to make clear many times, I have no fucking idea. Some people seem to think that by evoking the words "socialism" and "expropriation" they've given concrete substance to their program, but please someone tell me how you go about appropriating the bourgeoisie in 1998. I'm all ears.

Doug



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