Eubulides wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
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> > Well, those mobs doing the overwhelming could be wearing
> > black/brown/silver shirts rather than red shirts if they emerge out of
> > merely spontaneous rage at "malfeasance."
> >
> > Carrol
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> Or they could be wearing Aloha shirts over Altar Boy robes......
>
> By your own arguments posted over the years on this list, there's no such
> thing as merely spontaneous rage generating social movements..............
Yes, but in the absence of any reasonably cohrent and visible left movement (marxists or otherwise) I am seriously worried about the forms new social movements might take. Especially, as I think is very possible, the present crisis should mutate into hyperinflation.
Yesterday after our local demo, I had a short conversation with a woman that has me concerned. At the very end of our rather small demo, as the last speaker ended, she stepped forward with some statement about the current crisis, and I stepped over to chat. (My poor hearing interfred somewhat.) As I under stood her, she had a complex of problems. She had been injured in an accident with a drunken driver and was in more or less constant back pain; she had (Ithink she said this) had her home forclosed. And she was angry at the bankers. BUT --
She was angriest of all at two disturbing categories:
a) Those who pretended to be sick and used up all the money intended for the poor
b) those illegal --ILLEGAL-- (her emphasis really) aliens who were taking up all the jobs that poor people could get.
I edged about the topics for a minute or two, hoping to get a handle, but gave up, commiserateed with her, and went away hoping that perhaps some other day a better conversation could be held.
Illegal immigrants could well be the focus of a pretty vicious social movement. And some invented new category of cheating poor people would just be frosting on such a sour cake.
Carrol