[lbo-talk] Workers of Europe unite, you've only Euro chains to lose

[c b]

Marv G.:
-clip- The question assumes, of course, that the interests of the
Socialist leaders mostly coincide with those of their base across
Europe, an assumption not borne out wherever they have governed.

^^^^^

CB: Marv, with respect to  the giant and varied protests in the E U
countries where there has been austerity attacks on the working
classes , I always say to myself that there must be a substantial
portion of the working class that supports these attacks on their own
material interests, otherwise the strikes and protests would bring the
countries to a halt, and force the Social Dems to do something
different.  I have suspected that this hypothesized right wing of the
working class is scared of the long term growth of immigrants of color
"coming home to roost" in the former colonialist metro-poles.  Anyway
, why would the European Social Dems attack their own base unless a
substantial portion of it supported cutting itself ? What is going on
?