maybe part of the "self-marginalization" of the "left" is repeatedly quibbling about whether an entity called the "left" exists or not?
Carrol Cox wrote: >> The subject line personifies "The Left." No such entity exists so how can it >> stop or not stop anything? >> >> Almost _all_ propositions with "The Left" as the subject are illusory, >> having no referent. Marv Gandall wrote: > It's pretty clear who Sam Webb and others who use the generic term "the left" > are referring to - liberal Democrats, social democrats, CP'ers, Trotskyists, > Maoists, anarchists, and all those who, whatever their differences, commonly > support the struggles, the gains, and the institutions of workers, national > minorities, women, gays, environmentalists, civil libertarians, etc. against > those who oppose those struggles, would rollback those gains, and destroy > those organizations if they could. < -- 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
