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

[Mike Ballard]

Because they are socialised and believe that there is no alternative
to capitalism worth striving for.  Given a choice between the USA,
France and West Germany and the USSR, the PRC and the DDR, most on
either side of the wall have made it clear that they will choose the
former.  Thus, it's very easy to see why Thatcher's TINA was accepted
by most of the left (not the Marxist-Leninists who had their own
peculiar brand of wage-slavery to sell) opposition to conservative
solutions to the issues which are raised under the rule of Capital.

I think the critique of the wage system which Marx began and which was
largely abandoned by the left in the 20th century is the key to
getting people to see that 'storming the barricades' is an option.

Mike B)

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