> Marta tries to include in her definition all sources of conscious
> opposition to capitalism from the grassroots or from above, not only
> the politically organized left, but also that other part -- much more
> diffused -- occupied in building "autonomous social spaces" and ways
> of life alternative to the ways of capital.
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Sure, but it's important to remember, especially the context of the US and
other advanced capitalist countries, that those who act in ways which are
subversive of capitalist property relations or are opposed to capitalist
greed are not often "consciously" opposed to capitalism as a system. That
may possibly be the case in Venezuela and other developing countries, but at
it's pretty clear that, at htis stage, it's not true of those building
co-ops of one sort or another in North America and Europe. They want to curb
the power of the big capitalists and make the system more responsive to the
needs of the poor and the powerless and the small propertyholders, which is
less than what a conscious opposition to capitalism implies. That's not an
indictment of what we used to call a "petty-bourgeois" rather than a working
class consciousness, only, I think, a more accurate rendering of where most
dissenters to the status quo in the West are at today.