[lbo-talk] good news! more job declines coming!!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 30 07:24:04 PDT 2003


Chuck0 wrote:


>Those of us who have been shaking stuff up in the past few years
>ignore all this mumbo jumble and go ahead with our resistance.
>Perhaps the Left hasn't amounted to much because it listens to
>people who argue that the "conditions have to be right" for social
>change.
>
>It's like all that bullshit about activism flourishing under periods
>when a Democrat is in office.

Well, on the Dem side of the ledger, there's Flint, the 60s, and Seattle. On the other, there's the 20s, the 50s, the Nixon years, and the 80s. Empirically speaking, there's a case here.

I don't think activists should wait until conditions are right (and Lenin would agree, no?). But there's a difference in how well activism is received, and whether it spreads beyond a hard core.

Doug



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