Re: [Marxism] Marxist responses to (was liberal forum on) the economic crisis

[Jon Flanders <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 08:00 -0400, Andrew Pollack wrote:

>  Nor am I happy with the organizational and political state with
> which the class walks into this crisis -- and even if its leading
> sections were better prepared, the class would go through in the first
> few years of the crisis what it always encounters: a long lag while
> the vast bulk of the class focuses, understandably, on
> self-preservation, and is hamstrung by fear. 
> Andy P.
> 

We need to heed Peter Camejo's admonitions to try to put our solutions
and explanations into terms that workers can relate to.

For example, workers are all too familiar with "the repo man." Well,
what about using that analogy for Wall Street?

Why shouldn't workers demand that the repo man take possession of failed
enterprises and run them in the interests of the people?

I'm talking off the cuff here, but I think you can see what I am getting
at.

Jon Flanders


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