http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/02/1002524/-Why-I-am-not-disillusioned-with-Barack-Obama
“When you are in a coalition and you’re comfortable. You know you are not in a broad enough coalition.”—Bernice Reagon The fractious and divided American left should get used to the idea that the non-revolutionary Left and the revolutionary Left should really be on the same team, just playing different positions. The non-revolutionary Left tends to get caught up in the day to day grind of slow incremental reform and legislation. That needs to be done and that’s their main job anyway.The revolutionary Left is supposed to have the vision thing, generating and propagating the ideas and strategies that sound crazy now, but will be considered commonplace 5-10-20 years from now. The revolutionary Left is also supposed to be experts on strategy when mass uprisings break out, which they do with the unpredictable power of a Midwest tornado. If everybody does their jobs with reasonable competence, the American Left grows stronger and genuine reform becomes more possible. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
