[lbo-talk] Re: Cultural change?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org>
>
>On Sunday, May 2, 2004, at 04:56  PM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Hmm, the US now has its most inequitable distribution of wealth since the 
>>Gilded Age, has just conducted its first "preemptive" war and is now 
>>terrorizing Iraq as a brutal occupying power.  We're on the glide path for 
>>a better tomorrow, no doubt about it.  Inch by inch, the Revo is taking 
>>place before our very eyes.
>
>That is precisely what I deny, dammit! There *is* no revolution taking 
>place before our eyes. That's just the point -- we are *not* in anything 
>like a revolutionary, or even a pre-revolutionary, situation now. That much 
>should be obvious even to the most ignorant. The absence of a revolutionary 
>process is the whole premise of my whole outlook on the present political 
>situation, and the basic difference between people who think like me and 
>people who think like you.
>
>Since we are *not* in a revolutionary process, there is no point in 
>discussing the present situation as though we were. Of course the progress 
>that has been made up to now, and is being made now, is only spotty -- 
>confined to certain areas, and only up to a certain degree in each area. 
>That's the way things go in a bourgeois capitalist system. But progress has 
>been and is being made in some areas and it needs to be recognized and 
>understood, so that we can make similar progress in other areas. And on the 
>other hand, where progress is not being made, that needs to be recognized 
>and understood. ...

True progress would be reflected by an increase in the number of Americans 
who recognize that no social progress is being made here ;-)

Carl

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