RES: organization of rev/

Alexandre Fenelon afenelon at zaz.com.br
Tue Aug 14 17:40:03 PDT 2001


Yoshie wrote:

The practical problem has always been that those who should have been the vanguard for socialism -- workers in developed capitalist nations -- have been the rearguard, so to speak, with American workers being probably the most backward among the rearguard. Perhaps it is against today's leftist decorum to speak of anyone being politically backward, but it doesn't help us either to pretend not to notice what we are up against.

-Maybe this happens because workers in developed capitalist countries -became minor partners in the exploitation of Third World. As we know, -the US poverty line is the 90th percentile of world income, so why -would the US worker class be interested in socialism? I would say -that a decisive defeat of imperialism is necessary to start a revo- -lution in advanced countries, but I don´t see good prospects for -this.

Alexandre



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