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

[Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's kind of ridiculous.  We are seeing countries in the midst a bourgeois
development.  India, Brazil, China.  Within our lifetimes
we will see more and more of the world join the ranks of "advanced"
capitalist countries.  The development of these countries, should
hopefully shatter the "dependency" theory that some of the left still clings
to, we'll also be at a point where the working-class of the world
will be at its largest number in history, who knows what the future has in
store for humanity.

"What's *possible*" under our current realities is always in a state of
flux.  Best thing to do is maintain a principled analysis of capitalism,
and a  believe in a future with the overthrow of bourgeois class relations
and its replacement with a democratic, socialist system, while
marching on the left-wing of possible.

It's ridiculous to assert that a depoliticized population will remain
depoliticized forever.

If being a leftist means lending solidarity and intellectual cover to
political Islam and looking with scorn upon the working-class than I am
absolutely not a leftist.

Presented between the alternative between the far-right economic and social
policies of John McCain and the center-right policies of Obama, the
working-class,
students, communities of color enthusiastically chose the latter.  Thousands
of people organized to support Obama and hundreds of thousands of unionists
have campaigned for EFCA, universal health care and other reforms.... is
that not the working-class as it is attempting to organize and fight the
only way
they can given the current circumstance?

Is there nothing in that worth engaging with?
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