[lbo-talk] Four Hours, Once a Week

[snit snat]

At 02:53 PM 8/17/2004, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>There are immediate things that need to be done. People need affordable 
>>childcare, for instance. I see all kinds of churches offering inexpensive 
>>child care and free summer bible camps. Well...? Why not? Why let the 
>>dead guy on a stick worshippers monopolize this territory? (And it sure 
>>as shit  doesn't have to be a full-time fucking job. That is one thing 
>>that annoys me about left workerism: the insistence that you give over 
>>your entire life to the movement, 24/7 slavishly "organizing". Please.)
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>The obstacle is that secular leftists in the USA, on the average, have 
>become lazier, stingier, and more pie-in-the-sky than religious leftists.

Dennis Redmond wrote:

 >

 > The US Left continues to lead the world in its ability to generate

 > circular firing squads.

Carrol Cox wrote:
Are you or are you not a member of that firing squad?

If not, then the people you criticize are not members of the left, for
if they are, then you are firing at them, i.e. are a member of the
firing squad.

If you are, what follows? How are you going to stop firing?

Carrol

"We're in a fucking stagmire."

       --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'