On 11/25/12 4:03 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I've decided that the key heritage from the Bolsheviks was that rule over > which the RSDLP split: that party members had to be members of a local > chapter. I now believe that with very rare exceptions, that should now be > included in our definition of "A Leftists." A Leftists must belong to _some_ > sort of local activist groups. (Past membership in such counts quite a bit > but is a bit shaky: it is just too hard for anyone not involved in local > activist politics to theorize the present conjuncture. >
Journalists don't have to join groups in order to be part of the left. Cockburn, Hedges, and Doug are part of the left. Kazin, Wilentz and Todd Gitlin are not. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
