[lbo-talk] AIDS, Race, and Class

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/12/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > there's only so much that a group like ACT-UP could have done about
>
> Precisely. And that is why I didn't take the post as any kind of
> criticism of ACT-UP. The subject is not a particular group but the
> objective limits of what some kinds of activism can achieve. It is
> complementary to your point about the limits of what the tactics behind
> the Seattle Demo could achieve.

One of the sources of anti-intellectualism in America is an extreme
reluctance of most Americans, including leftists, to come to terms
with objective limits of anything, especially one's own action.
-- 
Yoshie
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