[lbo-talk] Depression always precedes ice breaking (was, OK, Nathan)

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 13:06:28 PST 2006


FWIW, in 1964 Herbert Marcuse wrote "One-Dimensional Man," which said (if I remember correctly) that the cores of both capitalist and Soviet societies were locked up tight, so that no change would come, except for "marginal" populations pushing it. He wasn't optimistic about the latter, either. The book was pretty popular among the small left of the time. But in 1968, there were major mass movements in the cores of Czechoslovakia, France, and the US. with the first two involving the working class in a major way.

Alas, the left's prognostications are a lot like economic forecasting: it can predict trends, but not inflection points. -- Jim Devine "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin



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