And also, in many cases, the people calling themselves the left leaders weren't such
rational actors themselves.
And of course, the great confusion of which "issues" were the most important: racial,
gender, class, sexual orientation, etc. I still think the left is having trouble
making space for a multitude of voices and still being able to construct coherent,
impactful actions.
Maybe that's why the single issue politics AK or someone mentioned earlier seem to be
more successful at the moment that total economic and social revolution programs
(still, the RCP shows up at every rally in NYC looking for victims).
As far jeans, it's funny. They are a kind of symbol. Like in certain law firms, the
maverick lawyers come dressed in jeans . . . their dress is maverick, but their
actions are still lethal.
But what else do you where to a rally? A string of pearls? "What separates humans from
the other species is our ability to accessorize." Who said that?
<<I think maybe one of the problems of the trad. left is it did tend to assume that
people were rational actors, and wanted quantifiable things--more money, less
working hours, control over work, etc--when actually I thing the human
creature
wants some rather insane and excessive things--the love of multitudes, lots
ofgratuitous admiration, sex, and food; the right to nap whenever you feel
like it;
a large wardrobe of sexy jeans; the ability to remember punch lines and thus
make
people laugh; the ability to give gifts to loved people, and especially to
enemies; glory, amusement, excitement. This doesn't exactly translate to
rational
public policy but it does translate to Charles Bronson as a revolutionary
hero, I
guess.
>From the Land Where Machine Guns Are Legal,
AK
