[lbo-talk] Altenberg 16: Will the real theory stand up

[Andy]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Andy wrote:
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>> What doesn't get discussed as much is the question -- to me more
>> interesting, at least with a certain distance -- of how to combat all
>> this bullshit?  Part of the problem
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> Why is it a problem? You can count on your fingers the number of
> important voices on the left that join in, and as far as those on the
> right go, focus on them is one more symptom of what I think of as a
> serious disease of the left during periods of impotence: instead of
> focusing on the enemy that _is_ overpowering_ the left, i.e.,
> liberalism, go snark hunting among the riff-raff on the far right, who
> really are not politically important _except_ as liberal administrations
> use them as an exuse for not doin anything. In other words, at the
> present time, focus on teabaggers or climate denialists is a symptom of
> left weakness and avoidance of our real problems.
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> And of course this thread was entirely fragmented by Alan's error in
> trying to include two totallyseparted topics under one heading.

Oh, sweet irony.

-- 
Andy