So, if not unions...

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Fri Aug 9 04:19:05 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>But then, this isn't that odd a statement. There is a whole wing of the
>left that prefers the purity of failure, since it avoids the actual
>strategic choices required by any moderately successful movement for social
>change. There is a perpetual utopianism allowed by failure.

-Quite. But then there is another wing of the --left?-- that prefers moderate -short term success (or the prospect of it) at the expense of any long term -aims. Thus the people, if there were any around here, who adhere to the -Democratic Party as the only possible source of policy change

Yeah- wow what idiots if they thought electoral voting was all that was required for political change. Yep, anyone who thought mass mobilization in the streets in protests, door-to-door organizing, and workplace economic power was unneeded for forcing social change would be an idiot.

Luckily, no one like that exists around here, although there are some odd folks who think that putting the words "Green" on the ballot will suddenly make electoral action a magical short-cut to policy change.

-- Nathan Newman



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