[lbo-talk] RE: how's it feel?

[Kelley]

not in the least bit despondent. as justin said, "wait til next year". i've 
been at this too long to ever think that one lousy antiwar movement--given 
the conditions under which it was waged--would or could (or should) advance 
the left. paradoxically, to some i suppose, that doesn't make me less 
radical, resigned, or want to give up. i am, however, increasingly certain 
that the before anything ever crushes capital, the left will be crushed and 
out of that crushing will be born something that can deal capital the blow 
that will annihilate it. won't happen in my life time or my son's, but it will.

the left needs to find what and where it loves.

"I was not a cynic by nature; only by revolt.  I had got
away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I
loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to
love.  Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the
world."
--John Fowles, The Magus