of course you think all statements about the shape of the left are incorrect, you have said so many times over the years. indeed, from time to time you have rejected any generalizations whatsoever about the left. but, wise man, since you are tired of my whining, and think we should focus on what is to be done, please do tell, since i haven't any new ideas and would love to hear some. i'll be at the demo at depaul for finkelstein on wed am, i will be very happy if we have 20 people there, pleasantly surprised if 50, not surprised if 10.
--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> > This happens in warfare all the time -- you win
> the
> > battle but strain your forces to the breaking
> point.
> > Meade thought -- right or wrongly -- that was what
> > happened to the Union Army at Gettysburg. However,
> > that doesn't mean the other side isn't defeated
> and
> > prostrate itself. And we're not nearly in even as
> good
> > a shape as Lee was in retreat from Gettysburg.
>
> I think all statements about the "shape of the left"
> tend to be
> incorrect, in that they ignore that (if I remember
> correctly the
> terminology from a few decades back) the _primary_
> pole of politics in
> the u.s. is the strength of capital. Until that
> strength is undermined
> considerably by factors external to "the left"
> leftists must focus on
> doing what they can to prepare and to remain
> prepared for that time when
> the conditions under which we make our own history
> will be those that
> favor us. Whining about our current weakness and/or
> defeats merely
> detracts thinking from analyzing clearly what we can
> and must do at the
> present.
>
> Labor, the CPUSA in the '20s; the anti-war movement
> during the Korean
> War; the black liberation movement in the 1930s and
> 1940s.
>
> Carrol
>
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469