“A Whole New Kind of Struggle is Emerging”

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Interview with John Bellamy Foster, Author of "The Great Financial Crisis"

by Mike Whitney / February 27th, 2009

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the coauthor with Fred Magdoff of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, recently published by Monthly Review Press.

Mike Whitney: The financial crisis is quickly turning into a political crisis. Already governments in Iceland and Latvia have collapsed and the global slump is just beginning to accelerate. Riots and street violence have broken out in Greece, Latvia and Lithuania and worker-led protests have become commonplace throughout the EU. As unemployment skyrockets and economic activity stalls, countries are likely to experience greater social instability. How does one take deep-seated discontent and rage and shape it into a political movement for structural change?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/a-whole-new-kind-of-struggle-is-emerging/

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1. People will either latch onto an FDR, or a Hitler.

At least, that's what I took away from 20th century history.