Cockburn on Slavery

[Christopher Niles]

>Incidentally, the best illustration I have seen in years of my continuing
>proposition that "the left" (as opposed to scattered leftists) does not 
>exist is
>the fact that any other topics than opposing U.S. intervention and saving 
>Mumia
>are currently being discussed on the various leftist and marxist lists.

Just as I believe that "white" folks, not the "racist" ("whiteism" not 
"racism"), are a major obstacle to human freedom, I believe the "left" is 
a barrier to the kind of creatively critical thinking and acting 
necessary to the development of a post-capitalist, democratic, 
non-authoritarian society based primarily on principles of use, not 
ownership. But I am not quite sure what your are saying here, Carroll: 
that the range of debate among "the left" is evidence of its 
non-exisitance? Could you elaborate?

Niles