[lbo-talk] Re: Beyond Globophobia

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >How do you take it over without taking power at the level of a state?
>
> I don't see it as either/or. Popular movements can force politicians
> to adapt, and movements linked on a global scale can do it globally.
> And workers can organize across borders and fight capital on an
> appropriately large scale too. And taking state power can expose
> "progressives" to awful constraints - look at the Workers Party in
> Brazil, which capital is mostly quite pleased with.
>
> Doug
>

Presumably, a popular movement, working in alliance with popular
movements across borders, can take power at the level of a state, not to
manage it on behalf of capital (like the Workers Party in Brazil), but
to expropriate the expropriators; and once in power, it can materially
aid the popular movements outside its borders with which it is in
alliance.

Yoshie