delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>Subject: Re: delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor)
>>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:00:34 -0500
>>
>>Beyond that, however, we can't do much except bide time & hope 
>>the >tide will turn in our favor.  Even the best of political 
>>organizers >can't conjure a mass movement out of a hat.
>>
>>Yoshie
>
>But how else will the tide turn in our favor if not through 
>organizing and education?
>
>Joseph

Organizing & education alone won't do.  In addition to them, we need 
favorable circumstances, like a really good economy + a losing war a 
la the 60s; a combination of anti-colonial struggles for national 
independence + socialist struggles against semi-feudal landlordism in 
China, Vietnam, etc.; a really bad economy & a threat of fascism a la 
the 30s; a losing war + the ruling-class crisis of confidence + 
uneven & combined development a la the Russian Revolution; etc.

*****   Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they 
please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but 
under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the 
past.   <http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852-18b/ch01.htm> 
*****

Yoshie