Oops! Doug didn't "...also wrote:"
Initially I was addressing Marvin Gandall wrote...
Leigh
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Doug Henwood
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond
>
>> Marvin Gandall wrote:
>>
>>> It is about fear, as in the panicky response to 9/11. You can make
>>> the case that all great progressive change as well as reaction has
>>> been the result of fear - in such cases, the fear of suffering and
>>> death from hunger or war or both.
>>
>> But the left used to be about hope, optimism, the future. Now many of
>> us are backward looking, romanticizing peasant agriculture or the
>> horny-handed working class of old, quaking with terror over the risks
>> of biotech, secretly or not so secretly rooting for an economic
>> meltdown. It's a tough package to sell. At least the Christian right
>> has eternal salvation on offer.
>>
>> Doug
>> ___________________________________
>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk