I think that Fred is trying to create "the left." That's why he's calling on "it" to focus its attention.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> It seems to me that the Left should be focusing > > References to what "THE Left" should or should not be doing disturb me > greatly because they so neatly finesse THE chief fact of life for the > 10s of thousands of leftists in the U.S.: There is no Left. There are > leftists, many, BUT THERE IS NO LEFT. > > Anyone proposing wht "The Left" to do has an obligation to ground that > proposal in a more focused proposal on how (if at all) the scattered > leftists in the U.S. can create something (some loose coalition with > many local links for example) which in any serious sense can be referred > to as The Left. Otherwise such urgings are what I call sandbox politics, > the small child building cities and farms and armies in a sandbox - in > this case the sandbox being the mind of the isolated leftist making the > proposal. > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
