[lbo-talk] re: why lefties despair

[frank scott]

"Recent years have seen a huge advance in technology and
material living.  The tools leftists use have modernized, but
most of the social structure has not.  This imbalance leads to
discouragement.  Leftists are not gloomy by nature; their gloom
is induced by the slowness of change."

sounds like engels:

"...the growing perception that existing social institutions are
unreasonable and unjust..is the only proof that in the modes of
production and exchange changes have silently taken place with which the
social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer in
keeping..."

it's the system that needs to be changed...as soon as we do that, we'll
all cheer up!

fs