[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

[Carrol Cox]

Marvin: But you're right, there has been over the past three decades a
qualitative decline in class struggle in the West...

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This has been normal for 200 years. Periods of "class struggle" (or, more
accurately, challenges to capitalist hegemony) are the rare exception. But
they always come.

And, of course, Luxemburg was perfectly correct: humanity may well lose the
struggle against  barbarism. There are no gurarantees in history: that was a
fantasy of the 19th-c, grouded in a silly transfer of "progress" in
technology to "progress" in social relations. That was seriously ridiculous.

All we can do, as we have been doing for 100K or so, is keep up the
struggle.

Carrol