he's missing an opportunity to make an important point.

the class war is all about reactions. that's what he's getting at with his cyclical thing (which is maybe a little counter-revolutionary, but whatever). so, the next thing that has to happen is that labour has to react to globalization. but, he's restricting his context to america.

you could pull the bangladeshi producers to their knees with general strikes, but the way things are nowadays is that they'll get up and move to cambodia.

so, action must be co-ordinated across borders to be effective. and that's hard..

..,.but it's inevitable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VbUBbvu4Co