[lbo-talk] letter to editor

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

I agree.  There's a whole Hobsbawm-perspective that sees socialism/leftism
as an outside force that influenced the West during the 20th century, as
opposed to emerging from internal contradictions and struggles.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Ricky Page <rfpage2008 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > In the end the
> > only reason for the allowance of any change in a progressive way,
> especially
> > here in the USof A was the total war against the Soviet Union and it's
> allies.
>
> Really? So workers, wildcat strikers, beatniks, hippies, SDSers,
> housewives, civil rights activists, feminists, queers, transgendereds,
> Chicanos, Black Panthers, the disabled, and students had absolutely
> nothing to do with it? Got it. Thanks for the history lesson.