LP writes, "When I came around the left in 1967, ... a sea change had taken place since the heyday of Debs’s party and the dominance of the Communist Party in the 1930s. Workers in basic industry such as auto, steel and rail were enjoying a high standard of living and job security. There was almost no reason for them to become revolutionary, even those who were most oppressed like the Black and Latinos."
Rather shortsighted on political economy. First, Black auto workers were extremely militant at the time, demanding to extend civil rights to economic justice. Second and even more important, workers' real median earnings peaked in 1973 and have stagnated and fallen ever since. Forty-plus years later, we can make sense of what happened and is happening ( http://www.hollowcolossus.com ) -- instead of picking over the landscape of Sanders, the Greens, a copy of Syriza, etc. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
