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

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Thu Feb 11 15:09:51 PST 2010


welcome back B!

At 01:38 PM 2/11/2010, B. wrote:
>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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