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> On Nov 20, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> > Are you seriously suggesting that making a "demand" would have made
> > a bit of difference? Where does one go with such a demand?
>
> The Internets, of course. If we'd just blogged & listserved more
> intensely, Iraqi lions would be lying down with Iraqi lambs.
>
> It's funny reading this line emerging from Yoshie, who just the other
> month was denouncing Joanne Landy for perpetrating "resolutionary
> socialism." Cheney said the weekend before the election that even if
> the Reps lose, the admin will proceed with its war plans. Maybe that
> was just bluster. But if they think they can keep doing what they
> want having lost both houses of Congress by something like 8 points
> in the popular vote, what could "we" do to stop them?
>
> Doug
>
Hit the streets and force them to choose between authoritarian reaction at
home or withdrawal from foreign lands. The question is do you have the
bodies and discipline to do this? And the answer speaks to both the
veracity and spuriousness of Yoshie's position.
That is, Yoshie's position is true on some very abstract level but in absence of a critical mass it indicts individuals that were against the invasion from the get go. There is a spuriousness involved when moving from structural to individual responsibility.
It would be interesting to see where Woj stacks on this one. No doubt the "thin" act will be abstracted from the "thick" context that enables it.
Travis
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