>
> e.g. If "Leninist"views are correct and the resilience of imperialism in
> the
> "First World" depends largely on the exploitation of the "Third World"
> ("super profits etc.), then there appears to be no basis to believe that
> the
> Left can grow in the "First World."
>
> Ulhas
Once chatting w/ Bill Domhoff # UCSC during office hours, I looked up at his book shelves and saw a good two or three decades worth of issues on Monthly Review. We got to talking on why MR had/has so many more articles on second and third world socialism than U.S., Western European and Japanese class struggles. Bill essentially said that the editors of MR had given up on the possibilities of first world socialism and that their hope was the maoist one of the revolutionary countryside surrounding the imperialist core w/ it's bought off working classes.
-- Michael Pugliese
There were basically three forms of totalitarianism.... One was the various kinds of Fascism, the other was Bolshevism, and a third was corporate capitalism. Two are gone." -- Noam Chomsky