>... Patrick has introduced the oxymoron of non-reforming reforms, [defined as]
>>* reasonable
>>* administratively feasible
>>* logistically possible
>>* financially affordable...
[and]
>>* politically *untenable*
>>because to meet them would change the
>>balance of class forces so decisively that we'd need a revolution in
>>power and social relations to bring them to fruition.
Would you have expressed such puzzlement if Patrick had called them "transitional demands?"
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64