[lbo-talk] words for the black community

[Todd Archer]

Doug said:

>If all you wise folks learned so much in the 1960s, what happened? Why did 
>the movements disintegrate and the lessons dissipate?

Mike Parenti's piece in Boob Jubilee "Us Against Them In the Me Decade" 
gives a hint: when capital's mobilized against labour militancy, it's hard 
enough to survive, let alone bother with class theory and mobilization.  And 
I have my doubts the "base" for the 60s was all that large or all that 
radicalized.

>Which reminds me of another question - if the Chinese revolution was as 
>marvelous as you've claimed, why is China the leading provider of low-wage 
>labor to foreign capital in 2004?

If the Russian one was so "hot", why did it stuff its head in the sand and 
"weaken itself" for a capital coup de grace?

>And yet another - did you ever hear the proverb about catching flies with 
>honey rather than vinegar?

Point of reflexivity.

But nobody's perfect . . . .

Todd

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