Re: [Marxism] From the Iowa heartland: People are 'mad as hell'

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> 
>
> That's why I was quite struck when someone gave me a copy of this op-ed from
> a week ago by Schmidt. It is quite a surprising read on the popular mood.
> People are "mad as hell" in a very profound way, one that begins to eat away
> at the perceived legitimacy, not just of the government, but of the whole
> interconnected web of institutions and their directorates that constitutes
> "the establishment."

Assuming this is true, it is not necessarily good from a leftist
perspective. Unfocused resentement of "the way things are" can, in the
absence of an organized and active left, easily take the form of
right-wing populism (i.e., some form of fascist movement).

Carrol


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