On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 4/1/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>> it would seem like a waste of time
>
> You know, most causes that US leftists ought to campaign for (before
> you can expect the rest of the US working class, who do not have the
> same understanding of the capitalist system as leftists, to get
> involved) -- from establishing socialized medicine to slowing down
> climate change to ending the US wars in Iraq, et al. -- are all "a
> waste of time,"
Not at all. Single-payer and action on climate change are far more achievable than electing any kind of leftist president. And someow, some way, the U.S. is going to leave Iraq. Those are in a completely different realm of difficulty from presidential politics. The president is the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie, as the Sparts put it, and the bourgeoisie is far more likely to concede on these three issues (they're already moving on climate change) than on who inhabits the Oval Office.
> You complain that activists do not take
> interest in theory
Yup. If they did, the above points would be obvious to them.
Doug