[lbo-talk] The Liberal Morality: Shutm on Atrocities

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Dec 29 10:12:32 PST 2008


On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:


>> But don't be disappointed that you can't desalinate the ocean by
>> merely spitting into it.
>
> I'm dense. Please explain.

You're not keeping up with your Cox Thought:


> Matthias Wasser wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The largest anti-war demonstrations in world history occurred in
>>> 2003.
>>>
>>
>> That's actually evidence that resistance is ineffective, isn't it?
>
> Actually, NO!
>
> You need to have a developed sense of what resistence _can_ achieve
> in a
> given context and what it _cannot_ achieve but should try to achieve
> anyhow, and how activists should proceed under the latter
> circumstances.
> Too many well-intentioned leftists prefer to spit in the ocean on the
> basis that unless their spit can deslainate the ocean nothing can be
> done.
>
> Carrol



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