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

[Jim Devine]

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