[lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are

[Carrol Cox]

All my posts circle around, in one way or another, the absence of a
coherent left in the U.S. and the question of what leftists can/should
do when there is no such thing as "The Left" as a center to their
thought and action. I reject the single hegemonic party (of any kind of
structure) for a multiplicity of groups, a movement of movements. But
how?  Not how to create it; no one can do that, but how to do work that
might contribute to its appearance.

Focusing in this way, I cannot but become irate when I see most
conversation among leftists in effect follow a line by Cannon often
quoted by Lou P: "The Art of Politics is to know what do do next." But
that is insance. It is the same thing that Bernstein advocated: the
mvement is everything, the final goal is nothign. It kills thought.

Carrol  

Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> 
> This thread is making me even sorrier than I already was that I am missing
> the meetup. Even though we've had this conversation probably a million
> times.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I was in a hurry my last post, and just threw it out. But I want to give
> > some explanation of the strategic principles involved.
> > <snip>
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