Well, leaving aside that no one has a clue what it would mean to talk about revolution today. what are you saying? That leftists shouldn't struggle to improve the lives of working people because it will deradicalize them? The worse the better? We want them hungry and ragged? Obviously there is a tension here. Probably the hardest place in the world to be a communist or revolutionary socialist is in the Scandanavian social democracies. What could you possibly offer workers in Sweden that (a) they don't have, and (b) would be worth disrupting their comfortable lives to get? However, it's also true that if Americans had what they had in Sweden, we'd think the revolution was over, and we'd won. It wouldn't be bad to get that far, don't you think?
jsk
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