Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > i suppose if i thought there were a left movement worthy of the name, > i would be closer to you and michael on this.
But it is precisely because I think there is no left movement worthy of the name that I argue as I do. There is no Left in the U.S. but there are 10s of thousands of leftists. Not enough to have any influence whatever on electoral politics, but enough that if they could somehow get roughly together in a loose coalition* they could do the kind of work I propose (but _still_ would not be able to have any electoral effect). So the task of us scattered leftists is to give our thought and energy to building fragments of a foundation for such a loose coalition, mostly (now) in the form of local groups of various sorts. Daydreaming about electoral impact or fussing about Obama one way or another is a distraction. *I say "loose coalition" because I do not think there will ever be a single revolutionary party in the united states; whatever form a movement takes, it will more resemble the "fronts" formed in Central American movements in the '70s and '80s than either the 2d or3d international parties. (Resemble -- not be modelled on. Models don't carry over borders.) Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
