[lbo-talk] Wisconsin recall results

[Carrol Cox]

I'll want to study Joshua's post carefully later, but one quick 
observation. As I've noted a couple times already, Wisconsin has ignited 
new kinds of conversation as well as new kinds of activity all over the 
nation. "Criticism" of what they did there is as ludicrous as to 
criticize Montgomery NAACP because their tactic did not lead to Congress 
passing sweeping civil-rights legislation in 1957. They started 
something. We do not know yet what that something is or whether it will 
grow. We do know that in cities across the nation people who six months 
ago did not know of each others existence are now talking to each other, 
speculating on possible further action, thinking. This won't impress 
Wojtek.

Beginnings are always confused. Criticism of them is always stupid -- 
even when the criticism turns out to be right, it's still stupid. Read 
Ollman's Dialectical Investigations.

Carrol