Comments on: Structure Vs. Conjuncture http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2007/02/22/structure-vs-conjuncture/ The Politics, Economics & Culture of Radical Change Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Carl Davidson, SolidarityEconomy.net http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2007/02/22/structure-vs-conjuncture/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Carl Davidson, SolidarityEconomy.net Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:39:18 +0000 http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2007/02/22/structure-vs-conjuncture/#comment-305 Where's the beef? I agree with the first comment. All that analysis reaching back to FDR, but no 'What Is To Be Done?' Whatever happened to 'the philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it'? Besides, even the analysis in problematic. Brenner would do well to pay a little more attention to the Globalist vs US hegemonist divide worldwide, then the the nationalist opposition to both, and he'd get a deeper understanding of divisions in both parties. Rahm Emanuel is my favorite Democrat to focus my fire on, by the party has about six contending factions at the moment, and he's only one of them. Now I hold no fundamental hope for either party, and try to following a strategy and tactics that will unravel both and create something new, reflecting the politics of this site. But this doesn't help much. Where’s the beef?

I agree with the first comment. All that analysis reaching back to FDR, but no ‘What Is To Be Done?’ Whatever happened to ‘the philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it’?

Besides, even the analysis in problematic. Brenner would do well to pay a little more attention to the Globalist vs US hegemonist divide worldwide, then the the nationalist opposition to both, and he’d get a deeper understanding of divisions in both parties. Rahm Emanuel is my favorite Democrat to focus my fire on, by the party has about six contending factions at the moment, and he’s only one of them.

Now I hold no fundamental hope for either party, and try to following a strategy and tactics that will unravel both and create something new, reflecting the politics of this site.

But this doesn’t help much.

]]> By: SolidarityEconomy.net » Blog Archive » A Glass Nearly Empty http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2007/02/22/structure-vs-conjuncture/comment-page-1/#comment-304 SolidarityEconomy.net » Blog Archive » A Glass Nearly Empty Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:24:28 +0000 http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2007/02/22/structure-vs-conjuncture/#comment-304 [...] Imagine a Republican strategist, a little unnerved by signs of a Progressive revival across the US during the past few years, asking himself, ‘what can I do to discourage those fledgling leftist”? Well, sir, you couldn’t do much better than have them all read Robert Brenner’s speculative piece, Structure Vs. Conjuncture: the 2006 Election and the Rightward Shift. It relentlessly crushes any flowers of optimism that might have bloomed from last November’s Democratic electoral victories. [...] [...] Imagine a Republican strategist, a little unnerved by signs of a Progressive revival across the US during the past few years, asking himself, ‘what can I do to discourage those fledgling leftist”? Well, sir, you couldn’t do much better than have them all read Robert Brenner’s speculative piece, Structure Vs. Conjuncture: the 2006 Election and the Rightward Shift. It relentlessly crushes any flowers of optimism that might have bloomed from last November’s Democratic electoral victories. [...]

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