class

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>And not, surely, "What class do people think they are in?" but "What
>>class would (say) 20% of the working class think they were in after five
>>years of growing mass activity around a given set of issues?"
>
>You keep saying stuff like this, but where does all this mass 
>agitation come from in the first place? Does it just drop from the 
>sky? Doesn't the way people think of themselves and their 
>possibilities determine whether the "mass activity" gets started?
>
>Doug

Russians in 1906 couldn't have foreseen 1917, I think.  It must have 
been hard to predict the 1930s from the cultures of the 1920s; 
fascism from the cultures of Weimar; the Red Purge from the Popular 
Front; the late 1960s & early 1970s from the cultures of the 1950s; 
and so on.  Social change of the momentous kind & tremendous 
magnitude in the future (even in the near future) is difficult to 
foretell based upon empirical observations of "what most people 
think" in the present.

Yoshie