The currently philosophy of progressive organizations from labor to the anti-war movement seems to be predicated on the claim that we can pimp our way two freedom.
So far, the net result of Obama's campaign and subsequent electoral victory, such as it was, has been to cause well-meaning liberal souls to squander their energy, time and money on various futile activities, such as "campaigning" rather than doing what they ought to be doing-inciting an organized revolt.
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:55:36 -0500
> From: mjs at smithbowen.net
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Guardian: Obama prepared to talk to Hamas
>
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:48:07 -0800 (PST)
> dredmond at efn.org wrote:
>
> > There's an
> > opening for progressive social movements which didn't exist a year ago.
>
> And we can depend on Obama to slam it shut, if he possibly can.
>
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>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
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