Perhaps it is the steady downward pressure over the last 35 years on wages that is most responsible for left weakness during those decades.
Carrol
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I don't think that it is any more correct to say that rising
prosperity leads to increased left activity than it is to say that
decreased prosperity leads to increased activism. Or if you like, it
is just as wrong to say declining prosperity leads to less left
activity as it is to say that increasing prosperity leads to less left
activity (labour aristocracy). It is all in what we do with it. That
is not to say that there aren't parameters set by material and social
relations but those are still created by people and can just as easily
(maybe not) be worked through.
Brad