John Gulick wrote:
> Very well-put. Great post. Clearly the "class fraction" that stands to
> lose the most from global neo-liberalism (like you said, the latest
> incarnation of neo-colonialism) is the self-sufficient and semi-subsistent
> peasantry, which is still the bulk of the population in China, South Asia,
> sub-Saharan Africa. That's why the most radical immediate demands to be
> made upon today's world system are [SNIP]
It doesn't matter what follows the are, the proposition is false. One does not measure the radicalness of demands by their relationship to the needs or practices of the system. By that criteria, the only radical demand would be, "Socialism Today,." The most radical demands one can make upon the system are those demands which while (a) being some sort of threat to the system's strength (b) the strongest working-class forces can be mobilized around. It matters not how "radical" a demand is if one cannot marshall the troops and generate the tactics and strategy necessary to fight for the demand.
Gulick may of course be quite correct in his estimation. It is only that the arguments he gives for it are utterly irrelevant outside the classroom.
Carrol