From: dlaibman@JJAY.CUNY.EDU
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 15:26:48 EST
Not at all. The USSR and ANESR are certainly North. Western Europe is not far behind. And the capitalist ruling class in the US is being driven into greater territorial and political alliances with precapitalist classes and strata in the South -- the "Second World" -- as the working-class movement here presses toward a "point of qualitative transformation." This is all fantasy, of course, but it is not immaterial. Showing that butterfly wing effects are conceivable *within a historical materialist framework* is, I think, a useful and important response to the old canard that Marxists are rigid determinists; that grasping a direction principle within history amounts to a fatalistic assumption taht only one path is (was) possible. David ----- Original Message ----- From: Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM> Date: Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:28 am Subject: Re: [OPE-L] Do Red Butterflies Flap Their Wings in Advanced Capitalist Nations? > (I also left out Japan, as someone else pointed out.) > > Hi David, > > And Australia and New Zealand. > > Is it _my_ imagination or was there a built-in > presumption on your part that socialist revolutions > -- even with alternative scenarios for the 20th Century > -- would most likely only be successful in the 'South'? > > In solidarity, Jerry >
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