[lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institutioninoneday

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Jan 24 20:48:35 PST 2010


On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:


>>> ideas really do flow from action, and we haven't tried to act yet.
>>
>> Carrol, I think this is the first time since Doug started this list 10
>> years that I've finally understood what you've been getting all these
>> years.
>
> On the other hand, a lot of activism is all about action, and opposed to
> reflecting on it. That's the whole point of the piece that Liza,
> Christian, and I wrote all those years ago:

But, as I specifically said in my post using your coined term, I think Carrol's post goes beyond activistism. Right or wrong, he certainly is reflecting and giving criteria for judging between courses of action.

Again, I'm not endorsing it. But I think it's original and not dumb.

Michael



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