[lbo-talk] Four Hours, Once a Week

snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Aug 17 13:28:32 PDT 2004


At 04:03 PM 8/17/2004, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>snit snat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com, Tue Aug 17 12:31:40 PDT 2004:
>>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.)
>> >
>> >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.
>
>You can't create anything on the left (or on any other point on the
>political spectrum) by spending neither time nor money -- that is just a fact.

When and how are you going to stop firing?

Kelley

"We're in a fucking stagmire."

--Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'



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