I don't want to say too much, but when I say that capital is divided and labor can use that to win, I'm speaking from experience, not theory. Theory says they give in when you hurt their bottom line. That's not my experience. My experience is that they give in when you pitch the short term thinkers against the long term thinkers, the liberals against the hard noses, and the financiers against the productive capitalists.

Gramsci said that after one failed anarchist revolution and before a second. The capitalist class had learned solidarity through struggle, just like we do. Today's capitalists are in new waters: finance has taken over and tech hasn't been tested by worker uprisings yet. Still others are resting on the victories of the Reagan years.

I don't belive in generating pessimism in people once we've committed to struggle. So instead of saying "it won't work," I have to ask "what should we do differently based on your analysis?"