On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-11-25, at 4:07 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > >> 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. > > Carrol's argument would have more weight if there were still a mass workers' > movement as there once was. I'm curious what group Carrol belongs to, aside from Curmudgeons of the Cornfields? Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
