> The motives and thevisions of power elites and movement leaders may
> indded be very diffrent but what maters is that their willingness
> to cooperate, for whatever reason, created a window of opportunitu
> for a change to take place.
But what makes the power elite become willing to cooperate with movement leaders to make change, rather than ignore them? They would have to be given a reason why they want to cooperate and make change, i.e., there would have to be costs for refusing to cooperate and to make change and benefits for cooperating and making change. Actions in the streets, workplaces, communities, etc. change the cost-benefit equation for the power elite. When people are not restive, it doesn't cost the power elite anything to ignore them or those who articulate their wishes.
Also, whether or not it makes sense to cooperate with the reigning power elite, rather than seek to replace them, depends on social, political, and economic conditions. You speak admiringly of the USSR and the USA's power to wage war to defeat axis powers. But if Americans in the eighteenth century and Russians in the twentieth century had heeded your counsel, or the counsel of those who had thought like you, there would have been neither USA nor USSR to do what they did to counter fascism.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>