----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
The rhetoric of the left has to be (it's not really a matter of choice) the rhetoric of solidarity, not of moral values. To give up the rhetoric of solidarity for some supposedly more persuasive rhetoric (which won't work anyhow) is to give up, period.
"Moral values" is a _mere_ name, and it is a name for something vicious: anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-foreigners, anti-black.
A political party serving the ruling class needs false rhetoric; a political movement serving working people and opposing imperialism can't use empty labels or slogans.
Carrol
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As if the term solidarity carried no moral-ethical-normative content in it's wake.
Solidarity is a *name* for what, exactly, these days?