>At 11:08 AM 5/24/02 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>k
>>>
>>>I'm back to what has been more or less central to everything I've
>>>written on maillists for five years. Arguments have to be directed at
>>>those who already accept them but don't know they do. Put otherwise, the
>>>first task of agitation or organizing is not in forming a persuasive
>>>message; it is in creating an action which involves people before they
>>>know why they are involved.
>
>other writers, observing this among conservatives, talk about how
>this contributes to what they quaintly call brainwashing.
>
>other than that, your conviction may be quite true for you, but it
>doesn't seem to hold for others.
Just for the record, those aren't my words, that was me quoting the ineffable Prof Cox.
It's unusual to see a fairly extended quote that represents a passionately held opinion be dismissed as a "cheap shot" (Prof Cox) or a "straw man" (Yoshie).
Doug