My suggestion would be not that the left is mot arguing material economic interests rather than social distractions, but rather that for various reasons it lacks, has lost, or has had destroyed, the institutions that would sustain an alterntive vision. In other words, it's not that we are running the wromg line, but that we have no organizations to foster a different visiion.
jks
--- Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > But I must say I still don't understand why Kansas
> and Americans at
> > large are as hopelessly deluded as they are, so
> willing to focus their
> > fury on trumped up social issues instead of real
> material concerns.
>
> Could part of the answer be that, these days,
> radicals are not giving
> Americans any clear ideas about how to advance their
> "real material
> concerns" outside the capitalist system? (Or maybe
> they are, but I've
> missed them.) More and more, it seems to me,
> radicals are focusing on
> the social issues, too, to the neglect of radical
> economic ideas.
>
>
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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> A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law,
> and that it was
> equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered
> by another, 'So is
> the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..."
> (1794); also attr. to
> John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt
>
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