"Self-Criticism"? Re: Lefty despair

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>Sometimes one loses because the enemy is stronger.
>
>Strength is always relative to something. You can say X is strong 
>next to Y, but you can also say Y is weak next to X. Since "we are 
>many and they are few" it's not a given that they have to be strong 
>and we have to be weak. So why the extreme imbalance of forces? 
>Yeah, they've got money, bullets, and TV stations. But you always 
>invoke this strength to dismiss self-criticism. Is this some variant 
>of the Party is always right?
>
>Doug

Looking back on this and related threads, though, I don't see 
"self-criticism" here.  What's been posted is complaints about other 
leftists (some of whom are specified, like the editor of the 
Progressive, the rest remaining nameless).
-- 
Yoshie

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