Shane Mage wrote: > Is it too taxing on the brain to realize that the absence of an "inside" > doesn't make something an "empty shell" (a shell with an "empty" inside)? > No. The absence of an inside makes it a less-than-three dimensional > object. That is, one with absolutely no tangible reality. Crooks and > swindlers can form all the "coalitions" they want without ever amounting to > anything like a political party.
Coalitions have tangible reality, in that they can organize practice that changes history. The neoliberal coalition helped make the world much worse than it had to be. The fact that the neoliberals weren't organized as a formal political party may actually have been a source of strength: their use of the two official US parties for their purposes may have been facilitated. (In other countries, such as New Zealand, having an organized political party may have helped. But political systems differ between countries.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
