On 11/4/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>But too many male American leftists are too busy saving
> women in Iran to take note of American women's problem.
Considering recent history on several e-mail lists, one appreciates
Yoshie's "observation" here. ;->
And in so far as it echoes Yoshie's coinage, "Resolutionary Socialism"
(the habit of believing or seeming to believe that mere verbal judgments
of Ahmadinejad or Lula have material force), the remark is cogent on
tendencies in u.s. politics.
But of course the causal relation suggested does not exist, given the
present weakness of the left in the u.s. and our inability to have a
material impact on almost anything at all.
That weakness seems to me the primary political fact in the u.s. today.
It's possible that leftists who live in the most powerful empire of
the day are doomed, no matter what. UK leftists didn't get anywhere
until the UK lost much of its empire, and even now they are not in
much better shape than US leftists.
--
Yoshie
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