>From Michael's response I will single out two sentences: > I think that Sabri's note suggests that we don't have > a great difference among us.
Yes. This is what I think. In details maybe you differ but, in my opnion, it is not the details but the "totality" what matters. This is why I call myself an anarcho-Leninist with a touch of Yunus Emre, the sufi humanist, or, the anarcho-sufi as I once introduced him to this list. Now, some anarchist and some Leninist friends will get angry with me because I said this but what the heck. I even respect many reformists and even had been accused by many of my "revolutionary" friends of being a social democrat. What is most bothersome to me is that I am none of these. > At the same time, Clinton clearly demonstrated the hollowness > of the minimalist strategy, significantly helping to move the > center of gravity to the right. For reasons similar to the one above and more, at this point I have no hope from the Democrats in the US. Maybe you American progressives, whatever this means, should look beyond the existing two party system and try to build a party which is not only an alternative to the Republicans and the Democrats to but also to the existing Greens. Clearly, such a party should neither be Leninist nor Zapatistaist. It is up to you, of course, to decide what kind of a party to build so I stop here. Keep in mind however that whatever you do here will greatly affect what happens to us, that is, the rest of the world. Best, Sabri
