Robert Dreyfuss writes: "Among other things, for such a movement and the armed militias that would go with it to coalesce, you might need another 2007/2008-style economic meltdown, a crisis long and profound enough for such a movement to seize the moment."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176114/ What's missing from this equation and all such other articles warning about Trump becoming a fascist dictator is the exact cause of such an extreme reactionary move: a revolutionary challenge by the working class. The 2007/2008 Great Recession, unlike the Great Depression, did not lead to a working class radicalization. The working class has hardly been a factor in challenging the deepening attacks on wages, working conditions, and other important necessities such as healthcare and education. Furthermore, left groups have not been growing. They have been shrinking. The Occupy Wall Street movement was significant but it was mostly led by young people not at "the point of production: as we used to put it in the SWP. Why resort to fascism when bourgeois democracy is working so splendidly? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
