"Take the angry white males who are maybe joining what they mistakenly call militias, paramilitary forces. [This is is from the post-OKC bombing and Michigan Militia/Tim McVeigh era - yet still relevant re: Tea Parties and "populism." -B.] These people are angry. Most of them are high school graduates. They're peoples whose incomes have declined maybe 20% over the last 15 years or so. They can no longer do what they think is the right thing for them to do, provide for their families. Their lives are falling apart. They're angry. Who are they supposed to blame? Not the Fortune 500, because they're invisible. All there is around is the government. If anything is wrong, it's the government's fault. ... These are the same kinds of people the CIO was successfully organizing in the 1930s, but who the left are not reaching today."
-Noam Chomsky, _Class Warfare_, 1996 (!)
Carrol Cox wrote:
"But leftists of the present do _nnot_ have these limits imposed on them (as the great explosion of "The '60s" demonstrated. So if leeftists today allow this 'historic' practice to dominate their thought, then they are _by choice_ making themselves irrelevant to the class struggle."