> Carrol wrote:
> >>Self-criticism within an existing and coherent left, at least roughly
> unified around both goals and strategy, is of course essential.
> So-called "criticism" of THE LEFT (which doesn't exist) is not
> self-criticism but selfconscious withdrawal in amused superiority to all
> those folk struggling in adverse circumstances to create a left in which
> self-criticism would be possible. It is either whining that others do
> not recogize the superior wisdom and moral character of the "Critic" or
> a gesture similar to the drawing in of the skirts of the stereotypical
> Victorian Woman at the presence of a streetwalker. An ideological purity
> grounded in the conscious moral rectitude of the "Critic."
>
> Gordon wrote:
> >>Assuming there is no way to avert the oncoming catastrophe,
> it may be a reasonable strategy. Hide out, and emerge amidst
> the ruins to proselytize among the surviving remnant. The
> purer they keep, the less tainted their reputation after the
> fall.
Yes. Now all you have to do is decide which strategy (two are implied, I guess) fits the present circumstances, and for whom, and tell us why.
-- Gordon