Michael Perelman wrote: > > Even so, if the left cannot organize now, when the > right displays an unprecedented combination of arrogance and incompetence, we > are in deep > trouble.
But we are. All over the nation. But left organization never becomes visible except under extraordinary conjunctions of immediate events and long-term local work. We don't have a center, but centers are not created by fiat. Marvin, Nathan, et al greatly underestimate the strength of the capitalist class and overestimate the strength of the working class in the u.s. Hence they have no sense whatever of the insuperable difficulty of utilizing the DP or the AFL-CIO for progressive action. They are utopians in the deepest sense of that term -- of proposing ends (e.g., a progressive DP) without any practical notion whatever of how those ends may be achieved. Of course we are in deep trouble. The barbarism Rosa L described is here. It has been here since the political stabilization of Europe after WW2. And there is no quick way out of it. Wishful thinking in respect to the DP is a major but not the only serious barrier to the creation of a nationally organized left. Carrol Carrol
