On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>
>> I'm not suggesting abandonment at all. I was trying to explain why
>> people were excited about Chavez and not making more radical demands.
>> The old ideas have lost some of their popular appeal, don't you
>> think?
>
> Since the "old ideas" never had much "popular appeal" in the U.S.
> it is
> a bit strange to say that they have lost an appeal they never had.
That's not exactly true - there was a vigorous socialist movement in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and there was something of a rebirth in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Doug