Re: [Marxism] The "turn to industry" of the 70s and 80s

["Michael Friedman" <mikedf@xxxxxxxx>]

I wouldn't hold my breath... the student 'movement' hell, the student
milieu, is a pretty ephemeral force to build a movement that's in the
struggle for the long haul... They tend not to be the "imprescindibles" to
use Brecht's term quoted in Silvio Rodriguez' song. It would be
interesting to know if they have actually built some kind of base in the
community and immigrants' rights struggles in which they have
participated.

> They begged to differ when the SWP in the UK said that ?the 1990s were the
> 1930s in slow motion?, but despite their relative strength compared to
other
> far left grouplets, (they bring out a thousand+ to Socialism Events,
> ISReview and Socialist Worker are very well funded), they are still not
even
> close to being a force in U.S politics.


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