let me have another go at this. I don't think we are saying that they are more compelling, they are more seductive.
That is straight from the Socialist Worker book, The Revolutionary Road To Socialism, the parliamentary system corrupts. That's why I agree with you, you don't just need a electoral alternatively, you need a revolution from below alternative.
Perhaps I should said, dont be so pessimistic mate. Things will definitely change. However, if we don't get stuck in and do something about it, somebody else will, and things will be much worse. keep plugging away.Yep. I find that (bolded) type of simplistic idiocy is still repeated back to me by people who never even lived through the era in question when I try (in vain) to convince people that forever meekly bending over backwards to be dutifully fucked over by the employer might - just might - not be entirely in our best interests.
In tlost of ways this is the entire problem. Alongside the left's dimwitted bumblings, the entrenched attitudes= that grovelling servile docility is some sort of virtue is, I beleive, stuck with us for another generation at least.
sorry for my shit language. being lazy quoting, cost me more time.
Problem is that some see this depoliticisation as a deliberate choice made by the working-class, rather than something they've been "educated" (for which read "indoctrinated") into. Apathy may be part of the problem, but it's certainly not the whole problem.
"New Labour" were always highly unlikely to offer a new, better "politics for all". That game was up as soon as they decided that it was better to submit to neo-liberalism than to try to act in the interests of the electorate.
Except that the excesses, while they've caused a recession similar to that which spanned the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, probably won't have anywhere near the effect on the bourgeoisie that they'll have on the working class and underclass, but probably still not enough of an effect to make people take their political futures into their own hands.
