[lbo-talk] The Crisis of the Global Left

[Carrol Cox]

I've written over and over again for over 10 years on this list about 
the emptiness of any proposition in regard to "The Left." I've given 
many reasons for the emptiness of that  concept during all but very 
brief periods capitalist history. As Charles Post ahs pointed out in a 
recent article in Historical Materialism, working-class movements are 
necessarily episodic. He outlines the reasons for this and announces 
that he will go into it in more detail in a forthcoming essay. It is 
really sloppy word usage as well as lack of historical understanding 
that  leads to glib references to "The Left." I've read many such texts, 
and there have been no exctions.

Carrol

On 9/19/2011 10:18 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 07:57 AM 9/19/2011, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> Carrol: "I haven't read the post,"
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>> [WS:] But you are going to have an opinion on it anyway.
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> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2007/2007-June/011240.html
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>> [WS:] I did not see the show so obviously I cannot comment on its
>> merits or demerits, but I will voice my opinion anyway :).
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