[lbo-talk] protest Obama

[Wojtek S]

And one more comment - it made me laugh when boosters of the Solidarity
movement in Poland and various dissident groups in Eastern Europe claimed
that they "defeated Communism."  It was like a flea boasting that it
defeated a tiger on whose back it was riding.  However, EE dissidents
proportionally enjoyed a far greater public support than any left of the
center movement in the US did.  So if EE dissidents boasting their "victory"
over Communism was but a delusion of grandeur, so is the belief of much less
influential US dissident groups that they can "mobilize" the public to
change the course of the US empire.

Wojtek