[lbo-talk] Rosenberg Execution (was: The STFU left

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at rogers.com
Mon May 23 06:42:21 PDT 2005


andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> Peple like Mike P and Charles B who are still
> interesting in fighting about an ex-country with a
> dead religion was a good idea are wasting their time
> and everyone else's. We need people fighting the
> Patriot Act, supporing single payer, opposing bad
> judges and the Iraq War and the rest of the Bushie
> agenda...Move fucking on. This is boring and pointless.
---------------------------- I liked much of your excellent post, and your point in this excerpt about focusing on current developments. But you're speaking from exasperation if you're suggesting that discussing the past - in this case, of "an ex-country with a dead religion" - is "boring and pointless". The rise and fall of the 20th century revolutions have much to tell us about how and why whole populations radicalize, what constitutes socialism, and under what conditions, if any, it might be realizable of being a more democratic and productive system than capitalism. These issues are still with us, at least in theory; there's always the possibility we could unexpectedly have to confront them practically, and some aspects of this discussion can help illuminate how to organize people around the immediate issues you discuss. It depends really on how these discussions are conducted and knowing when to move on, which is what I think your post was aimed at.

MG



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