Joseph Catron wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/whatever-happened-to-the-american-left.html >
Kazin: >And yet, except for the demonstrations and energetic recall campaigns that >roiled Wisconsin this year, unionists and other stern critics of corporate >power and government cutbacks have failed to organize a serious movement >against the people and policies that bungled the United States into >recession.... How do we account for the relative silence of the left?< part of the answer is that the plutocrat-owned media shun reporting about anything that the "left" (or lefts) says or does (unless, of course, the left does something that make left-wing ideas and forces look bad). It's strange that Kazin doesn't mention this, since most of the rest of his piece is about ideas and their dissemination instead of actual mass movements. (BTW, we need both better ideas -- as Kazin suggests -- and a movement. Neither of them is sufficient to create the other.) -- 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
