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.

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