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>I don't think it's necessary for workers to rally around old symbols.
That's good, 'causethey won't.
I do think, though, works of Marx, Engels, and other
>Marxist intellectuals will be "rediscovered" once a mass movement on the
>Left rises again.
Sure, and hopefully treated as one among many sources of analysis and inspiration. I so treat them. Not many here would think that makes me a Marxist.
The question is if a mass movement on the
>Left will ever rise again in the USA. Naturally, I believe workers are
>capable of doing so -- hence my continuing political activism -- but they
>certainly don't look like they will do so in the near future;
Sure, but that isn't what I was saying. I was talking about the self-identified Marxist movement.
then again, things can change very quickly -- who in "the
>50s" would have foreseen "the 60s"?
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Well, in the 50s there was a lot of civil rights activism.
jks
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