Carrol Cox wrote: > The weakness of "the left" (or rather the inability of leftists to form > a coheent left that can legitimately be called "the left,") since the > early 70s is due to conditons entirely beyond our control. And this has > been the case in _all_ "Interims" (between periods of left growth) for > the last200 years. Fundamentally, such interims are due not to anything > the previous lef movement did or did not do but to the resiliency of > capitalism as a syste, the resurgent power of capital after each period > of left success.
if the "interim" (or period of leftist stagnation) aren't anyone's fault (but are instead due to the system), does that mean that we on the left can do anything we want, e.g., sing songs in praise of Enver Hoxha or support the DP? -- 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
