[lbo-talk] U.S. Working-Class Political Incapacity

[Carrol Cox]

The incapacity of the U.S. Working Class for political action and the
barriers to development of political capacity may be summarized in two
phrases:

Innere Cities

Prioson Population (Black and Latino)

Until those barriers are smashed there will be no major political
upsurge on the part of the U.S. Working Class. "Wages" in Marx's Wages,
Price and Profit may be generalized as the "material and cultural
fitness of the Working Class," has become one mass of wrteches unfit for
any higher struggle.

Carrol

P.S. I assume of course the principle Miles has over and over again
argued, : Changes in consciousness FOLLOW rather than precde changes in
social conditions. I personally doubt that serious political thought is
possible except within the framework of this recognition.