[lbo-talk] Greece says Goodbye to Democracy

[Carrol Cox]

The evidence on electoral preferences has nothing whatever to do with
political consciousness. Political consciousness is measured by
participation in or support of mass movements. The core barrier to the
development of political consciousness in the United States is the hold of
the DP over the population. And, as Glen Ford insists, Obama is the main
barrier to the development of Black political consciousness.

Carrol

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On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:


> The low level of political consciousness permits this,

Sorry for quoting only this.

Emmanuel Todd suggests that political consciousness, at least in France
(from his "Après la démocratie") goes hand in hand with the religious
practice level.

With a strong religious feeling on one side of the political spectrum you
can find a strong political "consciousness" in left parties.

He illustrates this with the lowering of support for the French Communist
Party that goes along the lowering of the overall religious practice level.

Basically, he says that "political consciousness" is some sort of faith and
that when society as a whole has less need for faith (because the material
comfort level is more equally spread) then both sides of the faith spectrum
loose their support base.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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