[lbo-talk] termitude

Left-Wing Wacko leftwingwacko at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 05:50:07 PST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


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> Left-Wing Wacko wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> > >
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> > > True, he will be replaced by something more horrible (as Jimmy Carter
> > > was), but that too shall pass, and a DP Administration will return to
> > > power in 4 to12 years. That's how the system works.
> > >
> > > Carrol
> > >
> > >
> > So what kind of crisis or circumstance is going to make it possible to
> break
> > the cycle? It can't, and won't just go on forever.
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> Rosa Luxemburg answered your question about a century ago: Socialism or
> Barbarism. So far we've gotten plenty of the latter. So we keep trying.
> See Miles's post in this thread.
>
> Carrol
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>
No, that didn't answer my question. My question was what sort of crisis will break the stranglehold and cycle of the two current dominant capitalist parties that you spoke of? Like that that occurred with slavery, the civil war, and the Republican party coming on to the scene. What course of events will make it possible so that a party of the left can intervene and take some ground? Scenarios anybody?

Sheldon



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