At 11:14 PM 1/29/2010, Carrol Cox wrote:
>The following is the text of a post I just sent to the pen-l list, where
>Julio also posted.
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>The weakness of "the left" (or rather the inability of leftists to form
>a coheent left that can legitimately be called "the left,") since the
>early 70s is due to conditons entirely beyond our control. And this has
>been the case in _all_ "Interims" (between periods of left growth) for
>the last200 years. Fundamentally, such interims are due not to anything
>the previous lef movement did or did not do but to the resiliency of
>capitalism as a syste, the resurgent power of capital after each period
>of left success.
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>But, such interim periods may well be lengthened and leftists further
>marginalized by the endless false dream of "prgress" through cooperation
>with the enemy, in this case the Democratic Party. I have mostly ceased
>arguing with advocates of this hopeless policy, only occasionally going
>on record, as in this instance, with the prediction that the next growth
>of the will (as in the past) ignore the electoral process completely,
>focusing rather on the type of mass struggle which from the
>abolitionists to the present has been the direct or indirecet source of
>needed social transformation. The DP is the graveyard of left movement,
>to which leftists retire when real left activity, for one reason or
>another, reaches its limits.
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>
>Carrol
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