Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position."

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Lance:
> I tend to agree.  I go into the RCP's local bookstore to buy 
> various books once in a while. I remember back when the 
> Afghanistan thing was big the RCP bookstore lady was 
> practically yelling at me "We have to go out there and tell 
> them [the proletariat?] about Afghanistan".  Much of the left 
> seems to simply react to tactical moves of the right.  
> Cockburn named his rag counterpunch, and I think that's the 
> right idea, when you spend all your time reacting defensively 
> to what the other side does, they gain the initiative.  What 
> you're looking to do is strengthen and expand your side while 
> exploiting weaknesses in the other side, you need to have a 
> strategy of what you yourself are doing, since so many people 
> don't and jump on whatever bandwagon happens to be around, so 
> that they can go to events and wave the banners of whatever 
> their organization is, sell their newspapers, recruit and so forth.
>

These are the words of wisdom.  Long gone are the days when the left
propsed something new i.e. rational economy.  Today, they merely react
to tactical moves of the right wingers who skifflully push cultural hot
buttons to get the undivided attnetion of the entire left wing spectrum.

The liberal reaction to Trent Lott's resignation is a case in point.
That Lott is a known racist and GOP has used racist appeals to mobilize
white support is not news, so it is not likely that Lott's racist
comments were the real reson behind GOP dropping him like a hot potato.
Yet the liberal media (NPR) swallowed the bait and treated it as if it
were a race issue. GOP suddenly becoming race-sensitive?  They've always
been race sensitive from the white supremacist point of view, to be
sure.  So it would be intersting to find out what were the real reasons
why Bushies & Co race-baited Lott at this particular time.  

Wojtek