[lbo-talk] Tracking the decline of the left's historic base

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 11 10:38:01 PST 2010


I posted one very germane nugget from a longer book, about a relevant demographic being discussed (for ex., Sarah Palin's "real America") -- ergot you extrapolate and make broad, crotchety, and 100% unwarranted generalizations/speculations about other topics.

The point was pretty crystal clear: folks who are hurting are not being organized. And in the past the "left" (CIO, etc.) did a better job at organizing such folks than they are doing now. Period. Yet you made a 4 paragraph rebuttal that bloviated and gas bagged on other, extrapolated things.

Nice to see you again, Mr. Coxshaft.

--B.

Carrol Cox wrote:

"I think Chomsky very possibly does not know what he was talking about. [...] In stead of looking at class Chomsky is looking at "identity," and an identity subjectively defined from his own 'druthers."



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