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Louis Proyect wrote By Paul Street. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/needed-now-a-real-and-radical-left/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is good stuff and quite comprehensive. I'd add to his appraisal of Obama not only how the liberals got all misty-eyed over his initial accession, and the members of the African-American community were largely ecstatically expectant, Obama sat in the most powerful seat of power on the globe for eight years, and for his fellow Black constituents he did squat - calling to mind for all of us the simple fact that class trumps ethnicity, and the powers behind the office define the incumbent. It's helpful that Paul Street reminds us that the same holds for Sanders, or for that matter any would-be leader who stands to the right of the kind of complete turnabout that Street describes. I like to think (well, hope) that our experience in the past thirty years, after the right wing nostrums have run their course, and the air clears enough to realize the draconian, destructive nature of this system, especially with the inexorable coming collapse of hopelessly indebted capitalism into doctrinal and functional incoherence, that more and more of us are led to the same conclusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
