----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Name names. I object sharply to this sort of shit. Within _any_
> grouping, no matter how defined, there will always be assholes.
There
> will never be a time when there is not a fairly large scattering of
> leftists and leftist groups who are "discrediting themselves," and
> complaining about that is as stupid as complaining about the
weather.
> Live with it. It only makes sense to criticize those elements of the
> left with whom you feel most in common -- who you address as
comrades.
> Or those with whom you are competing for a particular political
space.
> For example, if you are in a coalition of some sort, and some others
in
> that coalition are advancing what you think to be a wrong position:
then
> you fight to have the coalition adopt your program or tactics
instead of
> theirs.
>
> But this sort of free floating attack on "some leftists" or "the
left"
> is simply offensive and pointless.
>
> Carrol
=============== Hasn't something already gone awry if positioning among participants has become a competitive zero-sum game?
Ian