Re: Reply to Paul Cockshott on socialist political economy

[Paul Cockshott <clyder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

dmschanoes wrote:

> Perhaps, but the issue isn't the momentary leadership of an organization in
> a great state of flux, but the movement below that leadership and how to
> break it out of that leadership's control; that means nurturing just those
> nascent left currents trying to oppose the right.
>
> That was the point-- there was the opportunity; there was a movement.  How
> could it not be riddled with restorationist impulses when the entire society
> had been riddled with restoration?
>

I think this is subjective. Some western leftists thought that there was an
opportunity
there, actually there was not. It is worth looking at some of the stuff Amadeo
wrote
in the mid to late 40s when he discouraged the Italian left from the idea that
there
was a revolutionary opportunity then. He said that there was a democratic
euphoria
which ideologically blocked the route to communist politics and about 1950 said
that we would have to wait 25 years for the revolutionary break - a fairly
prescient
remark.

 One has to accept that there are times when the situation is generally
unfavourable
to revolutionary politics.



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