[lbo-talk] Re: Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressives

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Tue Apr 6 15:57:12 PDT 2004


At 11:32 AM -0400 6/4/04, BklynMagus wrote:


>This notion seems to go back to your notion of making "them" bleed.
>To me it is a dangerous (and losing) bet to make. Bush may be
>incompetent, but those who bought the presidency for him are not.
>He will be jettisoned long before he can do any harm to the system
>he was hired to front for. Your faith in what the great Tennessee
>called the "long-delayed but always expected something that we live
>for" is touching, but, in my view, more than a tad naive.

Yep. Naive, that's me. I take it as a compliment.


>In the meantime the bleeding will continue, among the poor, blacks,
>queers, women. Why do you think a strategy of passivity will work?

Using the enemies own force against the enemy isn't passivity. It is strategy.


> > Though in the short term it has to be said that American gays and
>blacks aren't the people being shot down
>in the streets, or interned without trial in concentration camps by
>Bush, so their complaints can't even be considered a high priority
>in the short term.
>
>Really? Blacks are not being shot down in the street or being
>interned without trial? I think it is time for reality to penetrate
>Bracknell, Texas. Your vision puts me in mind of an e.e. cummings
>poem:

That's Bracknell Tasmania, cobber, not Bracknell Texas. Are you trying to have a go at me now? Love the poem.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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