i suppose if i thought there were a left movement worthy of the name, i would be closer to you and michael on this.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > > > interesting. thanks for this run-down, as i'm still trying to figure out > how i feel and what i'm going to do re: obama. > > I think this is a false question. > > Conmsider: For whom is it a question? Answer: For those small number of > leftists who do not automatically support the DP nominee. > > If all such leftists actied in concert as one would it conceivably make > a difference in the election? NO NO NO. > > In reference to electoral politics all leftists who think it an issue > amount to so few that they will NEVER affect outcomes; as electoral > forces they are the mere trivia of history. > > 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. > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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