I don't care what Louis Proyect thinks about me. I know you are trying to be open and above board and encourage debate, but I have zero interest in discussing my writing with him on this or any other list.
I think there's no question that the vanity and hot-air-ballooning he --and thousands of others -- have noted among the mini-celebs of the left, is related to the decline of a mass left. Deprived of reality checks, not mention the opportunity to go after the official enemies of their sect, and unable to get a rise out of the mainstream, which regards the left as too marginal to bother with, there's a tendency to form a party of one. Or, in Proyect's case, minus one.
Who was it who said, all the trouble in life comes from man's inability to sit quietly in a room? pascal, I think.Of course, the Internet has changed that. Now you can sit quietly in a room and make trouble at the same time!
Katha