[lbo-talk] Continuing Revolution : General Crisis

[Charles Brown]

World Revolution, it turns out,  is not the whole world throwing out capitalism all at the same time necessarily. It is an epochal process that starts in one country, and does spread. Not only as capturing state powers, but in forcing socialist reforms or social democratic reform concessions on capitalists to placate their working classes. Even 
conservative, politically petit bourgeois British workers got socialized medicine out of the Brit capitalists because of the threat of taking up the Soviet model . Socialized medicine there is substantially the same as it would be initially in socialism. Socialized medicine is a major aspect of the full modern conception of basic physiological human needs: food, water, shelter, air, and now, healing of sickness.

In other words, the Struggle continues ; has won and sustained victories .

The World Revolution moves its concentration points around the globe, avoiding the Imperialists. When too concentrated as in the Soviet Union, Imperialism can hone in on it and launch barbaric wars and threats of war against the Rev. Or Viet Nam , Korea, Nicaragua. 

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