[lbo-talk] MR & Maoism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/28/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 28, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > It wouldn't make any difference in the larger scheme of things if all
> > leftists in the USA ditched any residual commitment to something like
> > socialism and became rightists, except that, in that case, there would
> > be a glut of former leftists larger than the Right's demand for them.
>
> Man, I'ver never been very giddy about the state of the US left, but
> your pessimism about it, which is no doubt related to your embrace of
> Iranian theocrats,

Setting up a straw man goes hand in hand with sectarianism,
characteristic of US leftists, which explains an absence of any
organization that can unite most US leftists.


> is really excessive. I'd guess that 10-15% of the
> US pop has firmly left politics of some sort.

I'm not talking about those who have "firmly left politics of some
sort" -- I'm talking about those who have dominant or residual
commitment to socialism.  I have no idea how large the latter group
is, but it's probably somewhere between 10,000 to 100,000, not all of
whom are activists.

-- 
Yoshie
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