[lbo-talk] Beyond the Bipartisan Hegemony

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Grant Lee wrote:
>
>>One of my politics professors, a Marxist, used to tell his students that he
>>always voted for centre-RIGHT parties, because things had to get worse
>>before they would get better.
>
>Yeah, but is that really true? In the U.S., the left got hammered 
>during the Reagan years. The Clinton years saw the rise of the 
>anti-sweatshop movement (which was stimulated by the admin's absurd 
>corporate whitewash front), the "Seattle" coalition, etc. Going 
>further back, the Eisenhower 50s were a disaster, but the JFK-LBJ 
>60s were the opposite.
>
>Doug

I don't think that things have to get worse before they get better; I 
also don't think that it's a fruitful line of inquiry to ask whether 
things have to get worse or better before they get better.  That's a 
futile question as far as economic booms and busts are concerned, as 
you can vote for neither a boom nor a bust.
-- 
Yoshie

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