[lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>The Golden Age Is In Us:
>Journeys and Encounters 1987-1994
>By Alexander Cockburn
>Verso, 1995. 434 pp., $59.95 (hb)
>Reviewed by Phil Shannon
>...His strictures against dry, turgid left-wing jargon, however, are 
>opportune. He recalls his father's cool treatment in the Communist 
>Party  of Great Britain in the '30s when he suggested that a 
>Comintern  directive that " ... the lower organs of the Party must 
>make greater  efforts to penetrate the more backward parts of the 
>proletariat" would have had sturdy proletarians rolling on the floor 
>laughing at the  unintentional blue humour.

Ironically, leftists were far more successful politically when they 
were shackled by generally turgid and sometimes unintentionally funny 
jargon than they are today when many of them are masters of 
self-deprecating humor.
-- 
Yoshie

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