[lbo-talk] To cry or not to cry?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 2 07:12:21 PDT 2005


Richard Harris wrote:


>The author of this article, being an ass Tory politician, then draws
>the most absurd conclusion about why this state of affairs has
>arisen. But what he saw is how it is. There is a collapse in trust
>in the bourgeois political order several Western European countries.
>Now if this is not a key moment for the left to intervene, I don't
>know what is.
>Ri

Hmm. That popular attitude sounds familiar to an Amerian - all politicians are crooks and phonies. Here, it produces cynicism and disengagement, not a move to the left.

Doug



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