[lbo-talk] Gloom amd Doom and . . . .?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon May 23 10:38:53 PDT 2005


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
>
> 5) We are about a million miles from anyplace we want
> to be politically, reduced to offering unhappy support
> to a spinelessa nd rapidly right-ward drifting
> Democratic Party that doesn't even particualtly want
> us because, in the absence of the other factors I've
> discussed, the far right has gone bananas.
>
> Am I being too pessimistic>?

Not at all. You are almost as pessimistic as Lenin was in 1915. Has there ever been periods of much more than a year-and-a-half in history when a more optimistic view was justifiable?

Carrol



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