[lbo-talk] The First Time as Farce, the Second Time as Tragedy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 16 09:29:06 PDT 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>What does it all mean for the working class of the world? Recent
>electoral victories of centrist neoliberals in Spain, France, and
>India -- riding a wave of discontents about war and economy --
>suggest that the ruling class may be once again betting on socially
>liberal faces to pacify the left and rein in wage demands to prevent
>any potential wage-push profit squeeze from arising to aggravate the
>cost-push inflation.

Does the ruling class fully determine how people vote? Can there be no popular victories short of total revolution?

Doug



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