[lbo-talk] Nothing to Discuss? was Re: (no subject)

[Nathan Newman]

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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>For five years or longer almost all my posts on lbo (and other lists for
>the most part) have stemmed from one premise: there is not much use in
>talking about what an army should do until after you have given some
>thought and action to creating an army.

And while you've been posting, groups like Moveon.org and Dean have been
creating an army.   What surprises me is how few debates I've seen on the
left on how to influence those armies, largely because they disdain their
immediate work of organizing in the Democratic Party.  Which means those
armies continue to grow beyond the influence of those leftists.

It's an odd cycle of almost purposeful work by many on the left to keep
themselves isolated even as the largest mass mobilizations of grassroots
action is occuring all around them.

-- Nathan Newman