[lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Feb 5 09:03:30 PST 2008


On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Julio Huato wrote:


> C'mon everybody in the U.S. Go out and vote. For Obama, of course.
> Then keep doing whatever you're doing to advance socialism in the
> world.

I agree with Julio. A walk along Broadway on Sunday let me compare the kids campaigning for Obama to the tired old hacks at the Clintons' tables. No doubt that the "live forces" of any future radicalization have found something here to stir them. If they hope that electing Obama or any Dumbocrat will produce meaningful change within the capitalist system they are surely mistaken: but as the old man said, the youth must have the right to make their own mistakes--and learn from them.

By the way, the only reason I'm able to follow Julio's advice is that by 1989 I had become so revulsed by Hizzoner Koch that I registered Dumbo in order to beat him. The Clinton's are just as puke-arousing as Koch, and Obama is a far better specimen, even for a Dumbo, than Dinkens. So I won't be doing something unprecedented today!

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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