On Aug 13, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
Sorry. Let me correct myself. I CAN think of an instance where the
left
"counselled that the best defence in these confrontations (with the
right)
was to turn their fire on a hesitating leadership" - the Comintern's
direction to the German KPD to attack the social democrats as "social
fascists" rather than form a united front of the working class parties
against the Nazis.
So there is a "fascist" menace in America comparable, even in the
slightest, to Hitler in 1931? And Obama leads a "working class
party?" Come on!
The reality is that Obama and the teabaggers agree completely on the
issue they are squabbling about. Both are fighting to ensure that the
giant financial, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies continue to
dominate our health-care system and to bury single-payer national
health insurance--ie., the plan backed not only by the left but by
majorities among health professionals and the public. The portrayal
of Obama as a "hesitating leadership" is essentially that of the
teabaggers for whom any reform plan, even one written by lobbyists for
the health-insurance profiteers, is "socialist." That the teabaggers
are as stupid as Obama is clever is revealed by the fact that by
helping to beat Obama's Health Scam they help to keep the single-payer
issue alive and working for the left.
...by not coming out and confronting the right wingers, the
liberal left and the left overall may be shooting themselves in the
foot.
This is 100% wrong. It is by not coming out and confronting the
Obama/
Clinton health scam even more vocally than the stupid right that the
"left" are "shooting themselves in the foot."
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I can think of many historical instances where the
left...considered they could best expose the shortcomings of their
leaders in action...
Obama became the chosen leader of big capital precisely because he was
free of "shortcomings" (unlike the idiot Bush). And the
"shortcoming" of the Liberal and Labor leaders, à la Andy Stern, is
precisely their support for Obama in what they mendaciously advertise
as "the fight against reaction."
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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