>Do you guys actually disagree with Trotsky, tough, empirically or
>theoretically? It seems to me indisputable that American workers
>have gotten less than their counterparts in Europe, not because the
>former have been less militant than the latter, but because the
>former lacked "a spirit of generalization, or analysis, of his class
>position in society as a whole" (e.g., racism blocking class
>consciousness of white workers). Decentralized militancy of
>American workers failed to win lasting gains in the form of
>universalist social programs.
I'm with Trotsky on this one - and another one, too. The current ish of Workers Vanugard has a quote from LT in the standard Lenin/Trotsky quotebox on p. 2 about the Balkans - how the Western powers, ever since they first carved up that part of the world in the 19th century, have aimed to keep them in divided little statlets constantly at each others' throats. Seems there's a great continuity in imperial policy there.
Doug