Re: spiral of capitalism and socialism

12/28/2000, Richard N Hutchinson wrote:
    > it doesn't add anything in terms of strategy -- of course
    all the groups need to come together as best they can and
    network and strategize,
    
The strategy sections are yet to come.  I hope you will respond
with your critical eye.

    
    >  it isn't solidly based on historical materialist
    analysis, as is "The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism,"
    but more superficially on the latest headlines.

Thanks for sharing this... I was wondering why so few people
on the list seem to take my postings seriously. 

In fact, the Guidebook offers considerable structural historical
analysis... I wonder why you miss it.  Is it that you dismiss
any analysis that does not conform to your own preconceptions?
Or did you perhaps read only the conclusions and miss the analysis?

Certainly I tie things to current
events as frequently as possible, because of the limited
historical knowledge of most readers.  This list is
certainly not the target audience for the Guidebook.  I
consider you guys co-authors, via your sometimes valuable
critiques.  Also, history is non-linear.  The events of the
past 50 years telescope as many structural historical shifts
as have occurred in several previous centuries.  The events
of this recent period deserve considerable treatment. 

rkm