Ah, Dennis Carrol is only doing that old Second International (!, see Lucio Colletti, http://www.marx2mao.org/Other/BMSI68.html "Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International, "An essay from the collection entitled, "From Rousseau to Lenin : Studies in Ideology and Society.") fatalistic, wait for the contradictions to get totally decadent "marxist" shtick, like he always does.
A quote from Gabriel Kolko, "At best a New Left may only be able to define a new intellectual creed at home which permits honest men to savetheir consciences and integrity even when they cannot save or transform politics." Cited in , "Between Despair To Hope: revisiting Studies on the Left, " by Kevin Mattson, chap. 2, in, "The New Left Revisited, " ed. by John McMillian and Paul Buhle.
Good book from Temple Univ. Press published recently. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1642_reg_print.html Even, w/ the typos like these from Buhle essay at the end on the CIA w/ i'd's William Kristol as the editor of, "The National Standard, " mixing up NR w/ The Weekly Standard, and a half dozen others boos boos in the Buhle text.
-- Michael Pugliese