[lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Nov 24 08:01:40 PST 2004



>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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