[lbo-talk] Why aren't the poor storming the barricades?

[Charles Brown]

"The worse the better " is false most of the time.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The storming the castle argument is based om a false premise that the
> worsening of the conditions sparks a revolt.  In reality, the opposite is
> true.  it is the betterment of social conditions that spark a revolt.
>  Better conditions increase people's expectations and when those higher
> expectations are not being met, people are more likely to turn to
> alternatives.  If the conditions worsen, retrenchment is the normal
> behavior.  Economists never understood human psychology.
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> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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