"post-leftism"

[Gordon Fitch]

Gordon Fitch wrote:
> >If people won't do this, then there's not much use imposing
> >righteous institutions on them from above.  They won't stick.

Jeffrey Fisher:
> maybe i'm naive, but is an institution by definition or by necessity an 
> imposition from above? isn't the point to actually have institutions 
> that are NOT imposed from above?

Well, there are institutions that are formed by autonomous
parties and others that are imposed by force.  I was disparaging
the second variety but not the first.

-- Gordon