[lbo-talk] I, We or They

[Carrol Cox]

Quite often in many different contexts, but I am concerned oly with this 
list, one hears the phrases "too many leftists," "so many leftists," etc.

 From what vantage point, what perspective, what relationship to left 
qctivity are these phrases used? How do they define the writer's vantage 
point.

It seems to me that such phrases, even when accurate, separate the 
speaker from "the left" and implicitly claim a vantage point Outside of 
and superior to that of those wh are "in" the left. In other words, such 
phrases label the writer as an "I" in a superior (objective?) position 
passing judgment on "them."

I find this position disturbing.

Carrol