It doesn't make sense to go to the opposite extreme either. It is irrational, though, for a leftist to make it sound like we might as well write off "the left," unless he really wants his audience to do so (which, of course, isn't your intention -- your website suggests that you're a fine activist on the left). Criticisms of other leftists' practice should be fact-based. If you have better ideas than what other leftists are doing, you don't wanna say to them, "You're wrong!" unless you want to burn bridges. You want to make suggestions for improvement in such a way that other leftists would think as if they themselves had come up with the ideas to begin with. I'm not saying I can do this well myself now, but I've seen others do it gracefully, which I would like to learn to do. -- Yoshie
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