efficiency in government as a left issues:

[Doug Henwood]

Carl Remick wrote:
>
>Which leaves what alternative, "all power grows out of the barrel of a
>gun"?  What other route to social transformation is there other than (1)
>arguing or (2) shooting?  I think the left has the better arguments, and
>the right will always have more bullets.

We need good arguments, but we also need good fantasies too. Socialism, a
fantasy of an earthly utopia, used to be one, but since it's fallen from
grace, we sound like nothing but a bunch of carpers and policy wonks.

Doug