[lbo-talk] Re: What's at stake?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Nov 17 06:19:17 PST 2003


Kelley wrote:
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> <big inhale><big exhale> aahhhhhhhhhhhh. i love the smell of revolutionary
> defeatism in the morning!

Let's keep our jargon straight. "Revolutionary defeatism" referred to the working class refusing to support it's own bourgeosie in World War I. Except for Rosa & Karl, Debs, the IWW, & Lenin & friends, no one followed that course. To see a contemporary analogy to revolutionary defeatism, look up stuff by Stan Goff (whose own son is in the paratroopers in Iraq.)

Carrol



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