[lbo-talk] Just Do Something!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Wed 5.05.04| Just Do Something!
>
>Is the left afflicted by a poverty of ideas and longterm strategic 
>thinking? Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti think so. They 
>argue that activistism, a type of hyper-pragmatism on the left, is 
>tied to a deep-seated anti-intellectual tendency in the US. They've 
>co-authored a call for activists to take ideas seriously -- 
>something the right did decades ago, facilitating the ascendancy of 
>the neo-liberal project.
>
>Listen to the program on Pacifica Radio's Against the Grain 
>www.againstthegrain.org
>
>=====
>Sasha Lilley

What I wanna know is if Christian Parenti considers voting for Kerry 
to be an instance of hyper-pragmatism on the left.  :-)
-- 
Yoshie

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