On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Max B. Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't promise this won't be second rate, but I'd rather put to BHO a list > of good stuff that I think he CAN do.
Even better than good stuff that he CAN do, but good stuff that in the short term actually offers a payoff to capital, not necessarily relative to labor but relative to doing something else or doing nothing at all. But I'm sure its apostasy on my part to suggest a program that isn't punitive or confiscatory. The way I see it, a program isn't just a list of goodies. A program embodies a carefully thought out strategy based on rigorous historical, political, economic and sociological analysis. In other words, you advocate these things rather than those because of their potential for mobilizing folks and because of what capacities these things will bring to your constituency. There is, in my opinion, great value in looking at how such a "program" might have been framed, say, 150 years ago by anti-slavery activists. That is to say, there is enough strangeness there to discount any suggestion of adopting the program literally. At the same time there is enough continuity to throw light on current conditions. There is a speech by Wendell Phillips and a pamphlet by Ira Steward that I would like to recommend to Pen-Ler's. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
