On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:56:25 -0500 Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably we are mere trivia anyhow, but (just for speculation's sake) > how might we in some far-fetched but not wholly impossible way make a > difference? > > By doing what we can under the present difficult circumstances to > build the foundations (or fragments of the foundation) for a popular > mass movement when and if the concrete possibility of such arises. We > will probably be wasting ourselves in doing so, but it is not an > absolute certainty that we will. While leftists who vote, work, etc. > for the DP are not just throwing their vote away. They are throwing > their lives away. I like Carrol's take on our predicament very much. The gloominess and pessimism aren't overstated -- these are dire times we live in. But maybe from a certain kind of perspective -- always justified, but never universally shared -- all times are dire times. So how do you not "throw your life away"? Telling the truth might be a good start. In season and out of season, as the man says. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
