[lbo-talk] Soros, Volcker, Depression, Nationalization

[B.]

I've noticed that within the past 15 years or so, Noam Chomsky, for example, has rarely used the words "anarcho-syndicalism" or "socialism." Instead, it's "more democratic economy." That's fine with me, because I want a more democratic economy, too. And in the US "more democratic" is acceptable, terminology-wise. It's basically consonant with direct democracy, various types of anarchism, social democracy, and the like, ideas whose finer details can be fleshed out once society arrives at a point where such a thing truly matters, and isn't just pie in the sky idlespeak.

-B.

wrobert at uci.edu wrote:

"The meaninglessness of socialism in the U.S. context has much more to do with the impoverishment of forms of popular resistance than anything else. In this sense, I agree with Harvey, that as long as class consciousness remains at this level of development, socialism is going to be off the table, even as a site of contestation."