Leninism in 2003 (was: Re: Revolutionary Defeatism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 26 15:13:35 PST 2003


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Just out of curiosity, how do you intend to survive physically and
>politically if conditions in the USA begin to resemble what
>revolutionaries in the past had to, and in many poor nations still
>have to, work under? There is no need to be alarmist and paranoid,
>but we can't say that's never gonna happen, as the USA is at least
>clearly heading into that direction. Anti-war protests in the USA
>have been sometimes big enough to be encouraging, but protests
>against immigrant detention, racial/ethnic/national profiling, the
>USA Patriot Act, and other attacks on civil liberties have been tiny
>and ineffective. What if, for instance, more terrorist attacks are
>to happen on the mainland USA? What would Bush, Ashcroft, Ridge, &
>Co. do? What would you do?

No idea. How about you?

Doug



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