Re: Imperialist Hegemon -- Internal strength of

[Gar Lipow <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/4/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to build a strong and effective mass left movement (for
> either reform or revolution) within an imperialist hegemon (i.e., the
> U.S.) so long as that hegemony is maintained? Why? Why not?
>
> Note: Except for the slight wobble introduced by the civil rights
> movement (and the derivative anti-war movement) the trend in the u.s.
> (in both parties) has been steadily to the right since 1938.
>
> Carrol


Excluding the anti-war and civil rights movement is one hell of an
exclusion - since civil rights includes not only the rights of people
of color, but the feminist and GLBT movements.

But I guess what you are talking about is explicitly class oriented
movements, the class struggle that dares to say its name, or at least
dares to utter the word "worker".   But why would you put that
specifically at 1938 rather than the mid to late forties?