Doug Henwood wrote:
> So whaddya do? Nothing, while waiting for total world revolution?
Oh, a few things. Push for a higher minimum wage. Drive racist, homphobic, etc. speakers off campuses, organize mass movements to reduce u.s. military strength. Organized mass demonstrations against WTO. Try to cripple the Democratic Party in various ways. Organize struggles to recapture welfare benefits. And about 10,000 possibilities already known, probably another 100,000 or so which would come out of these struggles. All of these go on *inside* capitalism; few of them are explicitly revolutionary, and most of the participants in them will not be self-conscious revolutionaries. But all of them either enhance the strength of the working class or test the strength of capital.
None of them pretend that the results of capitalism can be destroyed without destroying capitalism -- none of them pretend that capitalism can be non-capitalist. Nothing I have ever said has been in conflict with anything sensible reformists havn't been preaching for a couple centuries.
Some struggles are probably better than others, but few of them are incompatible either with other reform struggles or with revolutionary aims. Sweezy and Magdoff suggested about 20 years ago that struggles for WPA type government action does really push capitalism to the wall.
Did you deliberately misunderstand?
Carrol