joanna wrote:
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> Maybe this is good news. Maybe it's a way to introduce class
> consciousness into academia. Maybe it's a way to begin organize
> intellectual workers.
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Gradual misery, killing by inches, does not seem to provoke resistance. In fact it is more apt to provoke frantic attempts at individual 'solutions.' Periods of recovery are when resistance is most apt to bloom. After all, it was in the _late_ 30s that both the CIO & the CP flourished, and the '60s emerged from the long boom beginning in the early '50s and the "revolution of rising expectations" thereby created. If misery and oppression by themselves generated revolution, we would have achieved world socialism long ago.
Carrol