Aside from the issue of anti-semitism or of rhetoric, it is, I think, inocrrect to speak of our "main enemy." That is pretty irrelevant to political practice, or worse than irrelevant, because it shifts opinion away from our "main problem," which is activating the many people who more or less agree with us (us = radical leftists) but remain passive.
We have innumerable 'enemies,' but it is political practice, not abstract analysis that determines which 'enemy,' undeer given circumstances is the "main enemy." The main enemy in a given case, for example, might be the manager of a public hall who refused us (some local group) use of the hall! Abstractly, of course, not just the main enemy but the only enemy is capitalism as a system. But we never fight capitalism as a system; we fight a particular incarnation of it at a given time and location. I cannot off hand think of a singlke discussion of "the main enemy" that was not in fact a theoretical and practical diversion from reality. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
