[lbo-talk] On Wikileaks

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Dec 1 12:12:28 PST 2010


Julio Huato: And those idiots in the government acting as if they need to respond to this as if it were some sort of a crisis. They should just chill out. Who cares?

"Idiots in government" live in a stifling atmosphere in which everything counts. That doesn't mean it does.

Passive pubic opinion is irrelevant anyhow to left organizing. At any one time left activists need only be interested on those they can reach _then_. Today's public opinion wafts off with the next pointless headline.

Persuasion never persuades anyone. All this gossip won't bring a single extra activist to any local group.

Carrol

Carrol



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