[lbo-talk] Gallup on Katrina reax: heads still wedged

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Charles:
> But I'm with ChuckO that _we_ shouldn't give up in trying to move and
change
> people. The struggle continues; victory is certain. We are just as stuck
in
> our lives and needs to keep trying to make the revolution as they are
stuck
> in anti-revolutionary inhumanity to most of humanity.  An obvious thought
is
> that "their" children might be able to "hear" what the elders can't.

Let's take a more global perspective on this.  The US may be in the center
of the media attention, but it comprises less than 6% of the world
population and its share of the world production is shrinking.  So the
struggle is going on, alright, but elsewhere - and will be won (I hope)
elsewhere.  But it will not happen here.  The US already had its 15 minutes
of fame, and now is sliding back to barbarism.

So if we were to take your suggestion of not giving up the hope - we should
be true to the Left tradition of internationalism and universalism.  That
means embracing globalization rather than fighting it to protect the
institutional status quo of the United States.  We should write the United
States off, abandon the US-centric thinking (whose Left version is "the US
is singularly and exceptionally bad") and take a truly global perspective.

Wojtek