[lbo-talk] kickin' ass

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 2 09:01:08 PDT 2004


Carrol Cox wrote:


>The basic error in _both_ propositions is that they treat humans
>unhistorically and mechanically as though they were objects in a
>laboratory experiment, in which it is possible to vary just one element.
>
>If a non-voter voted, he/she would not be a non-voter. So what we have
>to look at is not the _present_ attitudes of non-voters (whatever those
>may be) but at the conditions under which a non-voter would not be a
>non-voter. Those conditions, not the non-voter's opinions now, would
>determine the vote of the (now) voter.

You mean you're advocating agitating and persuading? What happened to agentless History?

Doug



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