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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jon Johanning:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"Marx
unfortunately didn't understand the <BR>prisoners' dilemma game, and thought
solidarity would grow <BR>monotonically, while capitalist accumulation would run
into increasing <BR>difficulties and eventually grind to a halt. The reality
seems to be <BR>the opposite.<BR><BR>I frankly don't know what to do about this
problem; I hope some one <BR>else does."</FONT><BR><BR>Jon, thanks for
your thoughtful and responsible responses to my lame efforts at
finding positives in negative-appearing stuff, or trying to approach history as
an unfolding complex process that seems to be in broad conformity with
Marx. There have been past solidarities that produced big differences
in the quality of life of the toiling classes (worldwide), but never
without immense sacrifices. There may be a hiatus at this time in the
richer capitalist countries, but I can't imagine why there won't be future
working class solidarities that run in tandem with future capitalist
crises. These will require great sacrifices and possibly produce a
chaos that most of us are reluctant to anticipate. I don't pretend to
understand this in its details, so it's probably an article of
faith in some general historical trend, hopefully aided by a limited knowledge
of the real world. Whatever, it helps keep me sane.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But to the extent my sense of things is true,
there's reason for organizing whatever resistance is possible right
now, studying its ways and means, and hopefully pass a contribution on
to future generations. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob Mast</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>