[lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill

[c b]

And there is no basis for assuming that history repeats. In other
words, anything you have to say about past political events has no
necessary (or even probable) relationship to present political
thinking. You have to provide concrete analysis of the present, not
just dogmatically mouth slogans from the past.

Carrol

^^^^^
CB: However, of course, "analysis" of the present is in the form of
ideas based on past experience.

The notion that at every historical moment mass political thinking is
predominantly "new" and not related to past political thinking is not
true.

In the US especially, the mass illusion of presentism, mass
anti-historicism, is a weakness of the working class to be overcome.
We want to encourage Americans to think more historically, not
aggravate their presentism.