SPAM: Re: :SPAM: Re: [Marxism] The Dead End of Anybody But Bush

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > Yeah, well, but at the risk of being troublesome, I feel obliged to
 > point out that a "local mom-and-pop store" is a capitalist enterprise.
 > It is a SMALL (classical petty-bourgeois) capitalist enterprise, but it
 > is not a socialist enterprise.  So the people you are talking about are
 > not, so far as that goes, "fighting capitalism".  They are "fighting
 > BIG capitalism" (or griping about it anyway) on a SMALL-capitalist
 > basis.

   Excellent point.  To recover some shred of credibility, I could point out
that they're fighting big capitalism to save their communities, but that's
weak; you're exactly right, it isn't socialist enterprise nor per se
opposition to capitalism.

 > And - since you brought it up - this kind of stance fits in
 > quite nicely with right-libertarian anti-tax sentiment, anti-LGBT
 > bigotry, and all sorts of other reactionary positions.

   This is what I fear.  I think there is a huge amount of discontent in the
country, I don't think terming it as a "massive" amount is too far off.
Someone will tap into that discontent, there's no doubt about that.  I fear
it will be the right, probably in guise of "traditional" conservatism, and
think the left has to work to organize and educate those people.

--
A closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose.

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