> Mass politics is dirty. You get your hands dirty. You become
> involved in a struggle for power. Power is dirty, and you must
> not touch. If you are part of a privileged stratum, your power
> is invisible to you. You tell yourself that you speak softly
> because you have class/wisdom. In fact, you can speak softly
> because everyone around you is trained to listen to you. To
> acknowledge that you have any power is to acknowledge that,
> on some level, you are part of the problem, you are at least
> complicit with the oppressors. "Resistance" is political action
> that refuses the possibility/desire of taking power. It bestows the
> great gifts of "innocence" and "self-righteousness." What more
> could any comfortable, middle-class leftist ask for?
Joanna,
Have I mentioned that you rock?
- - - - - John Lacny http://www.johnlacny.com
People of the US, unite and defeat the Bush regime and all its running dogs!