In fact from any realistic viewpoint (realistic in recognizing the strength of capital) the achievements of the left in the last 150 have been simply awe-inspiring.
It awes me in retrospect to remember even what we accomplished in a petty little hole-in-the-wall like Bloomington-Normal back in the '60s.
We did pretty damn well through a long succession of defeats in the '70s and '80s too. My best guess is that the people who are complaining (with the exception of Jenny Brown) have probably never so much as written a leaflet: and I'm pretty sure they have never been faced with the problem of when and where to make 200 half-sheet leaflets distributed by two people do the most work on a campus of 6000.
Carrol