Majoritarianism

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Wed May 27 08:50:19 PDT 1998


Subject: Majoritarianism
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> Majorities are generally formed *around active minorities.* To passively
> wait until you have 51% and *then* act is a good formula for never getting
> that 51%.

Yes but said minority is usually in the image of the eventual, more passive majority.


> At the same time, you have to remember that the left -- all of it, all
> tendencies -- has more than its share of people who have a
> lifelong ambition
> of always being outcasts. They acquired it as a byproduct of teenage
> romantic self-pity and have never shaken it.

Yes indeedy.



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