[Marxism] 20,000 march on Jena

[Darrel Furlotte]

From: "John Edmundson"

I think Phil is absolutely correct (and not simply in a
> 'benefit of hindsight' sort of way) when he states that the "result" of
> the 60s radicalisation was the modernising of Western capitalism.
> Cheers,
> John


Darrel:
I think you are missing the point Joaquin is trying to get across, because 
you are not looking at this dialectically. The "other side of the coin", the 
process that is important to us, is that the 60s radicalization was also the 
modernising of the anti-capitalist movement: the universal struggle for 
human dignity which powered the anti-colonial mvts, national liberation 
mvts, women's mvts, gay mvts. The "new left" in North America threw out the 
baby with the bathwater in rejecting Marxism, but the "old left" 
predominately was narrowly economistic and workerist.  Even the US SWP, 
after priding itself on its response to this new radicalization, barely 
skipped a beat in making the turn to industry -- forgetting everything they 
had learned in the 60s.

The 60s are continued in the Cuban revolution, the Bolivarian Venezuelan 
revolution, the Bolivian revolution, etc. Of course, the 60s are also 
continued in the globalization campaign of neoliberal imperialist. The 
struggle, with all its contradictions, continues.