RE: Social Movements
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Cmde Cox opined:
Like Wojtek, politicians and capitalists are scared shitless by public action. I began to catch on, actually, about three years before I became active, when I read a newspaper article
Let’s see. Politicians and capitalists are not afraid of sacking people, cutting their wages and benefits, screwing them on health care, busting their unions, exporting their jobs overseas, cutting public services, fixing the political system by bribery, gerrymandering, hook and crook, sending people to die in senseless imperial adventures, jacking up prices of life necessities to make fabulous profits, flashing their middle fingers at virtually every country and people in the world and so on and so on - but boo hoo they start trembling in their boots when they see a stone-throwing and window smashing mob.
I agree the Cde Cox can be untethered from reality, but you’re talking about different things here. The bourgies can get away with these things because the US public is massively demobilized and passive. If that public ever resisted in an organized way - a long shot, but not impossible, someday, maybe - then the big boys would definitely be scared shitless.
Doug