[email protected] wrote: > > Hi Carrol, even if you don't think the nationalization of banks with > haircuts is a step on the road to socialism, don't you think it is the > most fair and equitable policy to address the insolvency of banks?
Probably -- but that raises other than economic considerations. My focus is on the coming-in-to-existence of some sort of minimally-coherent left that can both have an impact on national policy AND, more importantly, create a framework in which debate on the left re WITBD can have some traction. I realize the phrase "coherent left" is pretty ambiguous -- deliberately so. I reject as museum pieces the parties and of the 2d/3d/4th internationals, but do not have any formula for new forms of organization. Hence the vagueness of the 'goal' I set. Lacking such a "coherent left," leftists opinions on what the government should and should not do are pretty vacuous -- mutterings in the corner or in a mirror as it were. Movements, out of which can flow debate on and development of forms of organization and postive programs, usually (in fact I suspect always) begin with Saying NO, not with policy wonk arguments over the details of government programs. The discussion I want is discussion of how to say NO in various ways now that in saying it we will begin to gather together in various circles in which further No-saying and critical discussion can occur, thus beginning to generate a superior network of semi-organized leftists which in turn can be the salt (not necessarily the leadership) of a new outburst of mass activity under whatever future conditions that might occur. I'm trying to avoid both volunterrism and crystal-ball gazing here. No one has ever predicted a mass outburst in advance, nor is there any acceptable theory of how to create such an outburst. But I think that they are always preceded (and aided when they emerge) by continuous 'practice' of local groups (with some inter-communication) in saying No. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
