On May 18, 2010, at 9:15 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> actually, it's the idea that, even if there's a we, that we can unify
> THEM. it's the entire idea that there's this herd of people out there
> who "we" can herd about, pushing them this way and that. i asked julio
> this question recently. leftist imagine that we can change the world.
> that there's this world out there that we will shape and mold so that
> people will rise up and revolt against the existing order. what
> leftist rarely discuss is why only the world "out there" changes and
> not left theory and practice itself. it's as if we stand on archimedes
> point waving wands and sprinkling fairy dust about, the unmoved mover.
There's always the deus ex machina of financial crisis and depression that will save The Left. Except that it doesn't seem to work that way.
Doug