Many people feel this way, it seems. It's no surprise that somebody can lean "left and right depending on the situation", because there is no Left in American politics, nor will there be within the current system. The same goes for the UK.

Political disillusionment is very sad, but it's very real. But the status quo is maintained via various apparatuses in place; the media, whilst quick to report on the economic crisis, does so in such a way that even "The Left" is shown to have no genuine answer to the crisis.

The academic and intellectual betrayals of socialism cannot be emphasised enough here. The Stalinist bureaucracy showed itself to be the logical extension of the Bolshevik revolution, even going so far as to disguise its own betrayals as necessarily revolutionary.

You guys have got to raise your class consciousness.

What I mean by "class consciousness" is not just that there are divisions within class, but that such divisions are a result of capitalism; that things haven't always been this way, and that they won't always be this way.

Without a revolution, the country remains either stagnant for a long time, or it regresses, into barbarism. Don't think that that cannot happen. It happened with the Romans...