On Jul 27, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> All I know is that you reject categorically the ONLY KNOWN METHOD by
> which substantial social change has ever occurred or ever will occur.
> You practice a politics of quietism; when I said that there is no use
> challenging such a politics "in the absence of full-scale clearly
> defined class-war" I had you specifically in mind. When/if a new
> growing
> left movement emerges then _then_ and only then will you be concretely
> confronted with the choice, "Which side are you on?" Then you will
> join
> that (non-electoral and minority) struggle or you will sit on the
> sidelines. You obviously cannot contribute to the preliminaries for
> such
> a struggle; you cannot even usefully join in discussion of _what_
> those
> preliminaries, under present conditions should and can consist of.
>
> Rather you prefer to opt out of the struggle by uselessly preaching to
> deaf ears.
What struggle? You just said there was none to speak of. How can you opt out of what doesn't exist?
Doug