[lbo-talk] Waht Would Have to Happen First

[Carrol Cox]

Under what condtions would a mass anti-capitalist movement overthrow the
state and seize total power? What would have to happen in the society as
a whole? What would have to happen inside that movement? In addition to
wht would _have_ to happen inside the movement, wht are the sortrs of
things that would be constantly happening in any case? How would the
relationships among the v arious strands of trat movement reltlate to
each other? What would be the general social conditions lasting over how
many yaars that would have both provoked the movemetn, contriuted to its
growwth, and made its trumph possible? What would What kind of general
social conditions, ecoonomic conditions etc exist the 'day after' the
insurrection? What would have had to happen inside the military to bring
about the one certain preconditions of a general insurrrection
succeeding, ile. the refusal of the troops to fire on the marchrs? (For
endless marches in the streets of many many cities would be what in
general a insurrection in a modern state would look like. How many days
would the troops fire on marchers before they stopped firing? What would
be the temper of the masses in the movement and their f riends and
relatives when  after weeks or months of heavy repression and heavy
casualties the troops finally refused to fire?

Answer all these questions in some  detail, and then we can start
talking about what the new regime would start to do on (say) Day 3 of
the new socialist order.

Carrol