Thanks for confirming my argument. Carrol
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Marv Gandall > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:33 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The left needs to stop self-marginalizing > > On 2013-06-12, at 10:17 AM, 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. > > 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. > > > >> -----Original Message-----4 > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > >> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:07 PM > >> To: Progressive Economics > >> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The left needs to stop self-marginalizing > >> > >> "c b" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> http://peoplesworld.org/the-left-needs-to-stop-self-marginalizing/ > >> > >>> The left needs to stop self-marginalizing > >> > >>> by: Sam Webb > >>> June 10 2013 > >> > >>> For too long the left has not been a major player on our political > >>> scene. ... > >> > >> The shotgun approach might work, but identifying the top 3 goals > >> might help us concentrate our effort. > >> > >> The first might be to make the private ownership of capital so small it > >> can be drowned in the bathtub. > >> > >> -- > >> Ron > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
