[lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is

[brad]

shag wrote:
>i just always think that it's a laff riot that people who take up this view
- that economic crisis begets radicalization or even that economic crisis +
correct left organization begets radicalization - didn't actually live
through economic crisis or economic crisis + correct left organization in
order to become radical!

shag
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Oh really.  We didn't live through the 1970s, 1980s and the early 2000s, not
to mention the whole 40 years of neoliberalism in aggregate?  Invert your
claim- how do those who never lived through good times account for
radicals?  Doesn't work.  Both can and have historically given rise to
powerful left movements.

Brad