Lefty despair

[joanna bujes]

At 02:18 PM 09/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>One of the main
> >>reasons that the left is so dull is its emphasis on self-sacrifice to the
> >>exclusion of pleasure, and its use of guilt as a means of manipulation;
> >>many leftist groups are outright puritanical, and even the most
> >>enlightened usually treat pleasure as something frivolous, as something
> >>unworthy of attention. As a result, participation in most political groups
> >>is about as enjoyable as a visit to the dentist.

Well, in terms of my own personal experience with a leftist/Trotskyist 
group in the eighties, the passage above describes it perfectly. Haven't 
stopped being a "leftist" but left that group after two miserable years.

Joanna