Revolutionary Waves

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*       From: Yoshie Furuhashi

The 1848 revolutionary wave in Europe, on whose eve Marx and Engels
wrote The Communist Manifesto and which gave hope to Frederick
Douglas, wasn't socialist, but it was revolutionary nonetheless.

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CB: Yes, and the U.S.Civil War was revolutionary in the Marxist sense , but
not the Marxist socialist sense. It was Marxist revolutionary because a
fundamental form of private property, slave labor, was abolished, but not
Marxist socialist because bourgeois private property was not abolished.

The last revolution in the U.S.A. preserved the Union. Perhaps the next
American revolution should let the United States State whither away some as
did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics State.

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One may say that from 1776-1789 (the American and French Revolutions) to
1871 (the Paris Commune), the revolutionary initiative on the stage
of world history belonged to Americans and Europeans.  Then, from WWI on,
the initiative moved to the East, beginning with the Russian Revolution.

WWII served as a catalyst of a new revolutionary wave, anti-colonial
and anti-neo-colonial revolutions, the last of which was the
Sandinista and Iranian Revolutions.

Then, capitalism rolled back the gains made by the two revolutionary
waves of the 20th century.

Today, there is a new revolutionary wave of challenges to the
Washington Consensus that is backed by US might.  If successful, this wave
will further erode US hegemony and usher in a multipolar world order.
--
Yoshie
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