[lbo-talk] Telling the U.S. left what to do

[Eubulides]

On 09-12-22 08:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I 'acused' no one of blaming the workers, but did want to foreclose that
> attitude
>
> But Michael's artgument is a form of voluntarism. It only makes sense on
> the premise that the only reason  socialism did not replace capitalism
> worldwide a century ago was because leftist did not use the right
> persuasion.

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Yet your claim respecting workers could also be construed as a form of 
voluntarism.

To wit:

"One thing leftists should NOT do is blame the workers. They have a
perfect right to remain passive and contenptuous of political activity."

If there's a right to passivity/contemptuousness, there's no obligation 
to be anything other than same.

You're still stuck with the jump starting problem Doug harps on you for 
ever so often.

It's obvious to everyone that posts on this list that strategies of 
persuasion, while not necessarily decisive in the struggles of our era, 
are indispensible. So what persuades when adversarialism and cynicism 
are the reigning ideologies of moment? Should we just wait until large 
numbers of people get bored with them?