ANSWER: Name this socialist

[Michael Perelman]

What Max wrote about health care was excellent.  Too much of the left is
concerned with its own specific problems rather than making common cause
with the broad mass of people.  I may be reading too much into Max, but he
seems to think that such a program means compromising one's values.  If I
read him correctly, then I cannot agree.  I cannot see why a roomfull of
activists cannot agree on the need to fight for healthcare and against
racism .... and militarism ... and a whole lot more, but it requires a
programatic vision.

"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:


> Take an issue as obvious as universal health care.  The
> importance of this for women, minorities, and gays, to name
> a few, does not need elaboration.  Moreover, polling shows
> the majority of the public favor it.  But none of the constituency
> groups (including labor, by the way) see this as important enough
> to make it a major, constant focus.  Why not?  Their own parochial
> concerns are more important.  So there is no meaningful campaign
> for universal health care, except from our teensy-weensy Labor Party
> (rah rah) and some "health" groups.
>
> That's what I mean by prioritizing, focusing, and making the
> compromises that leave you better off than when you began.

--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu