Marvin Gandall wrote:
Hindery, in effect, accuses members of the US business elite of placing
their narrow personal and company interests ahead of their class interests,
and the Bush administration of pandering to their selfish needs rather than
acting in line with its broader responsibility as
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the streets
is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests -- in
particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s. (Militancy, itself, is older
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the
streets is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests
-- in particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s. (Militancy,
itself, is older
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant in the streets
is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests -- in
particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s.
Doug wrote:
Louis:
The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
not to back a bourgeois politician.
Me:
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. Militant
in the streets is lingo from an era of ascendant working
class interests -- in particular, radical lingo from the
60s-70s.
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
Wel... I do not think it is an either/or thing... I think I said the
same thing as you, quoted above, in the last paragraph of that post of
mine that you quote...
Sorry, I wasn't responding to you really, but to the person you quoted.
Doug
At 12:18 PM -0400 8/10/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Why isn't it better to have a bourgeois politician in office who
owes a few favors to people like us rather than someone who hates
us with a passion?
Expecting the Democratic Party elite to think that they owe
working-class Democrats a few favors is
Yoshie wrote:
I've seen folks here and elsewhere contemptuously dismiss an
independent electoral challenge to the Democratic Party from the left
(Nader/Camejo and Greens who support them), an attempt to make voices
for peace heard inside the Democratic Party (Kucinich and those who
supported
At 12:52 PM -0400 8/10/04, Marvin Gandall wrote:
But to imagine you can create strikes, demonstrations, and other
forms of mass activity in the streets through the sheer power of
ideas, where the conditions for those ideas to take root are largely
absent, strikes me as -- well, idealism.
You are
Yoshie wrote:
My posting was in response to the remark that militant
demonstrations in the streets are tactics of another
era and that protests that are more theatrical than
militant are merely marginal.
Shame on the person who wrote that horrible thing you respond to...
Ken.
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Fascism should
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