[lbo-talk] Re: What's at stake?

[Shane Taylor]

kelley wrote:
> what disturbs me about these calls for shock therapy to both
> the US (chuck) and the world (bill bartlett) is that it's
> applauding conditions that foster fear. we want to build a
> social movement by accumulating people who are
> scared for themselves. (i think being afraid for others across
> the globe is a different set of motivations) to me, people
> who would turn to the left because they are scared for their
> own survival aren't people working from a position of
> strength, but from one of weakness. they are people ripe for
> authoritarian domination. people who've been beaten into
> fear and submission tend to identify tend to want to become
> the aggressor or remain the victim.
>
> thank dog for the 2a, if that's a future people hope to see in
> the next 5-8 years. we have a looney left now? in five-ten
> years, if we get the kind of shock therapy people desire, it'll
> be even loonier.
>
> effin' brill!

Exactly!  Gargantuan ditto.

-- Shane

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