[lbo-talk] sachs and poland

[Gar Lipow]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> The ally (or rather allies) we need now are not experts counseling Congress
> & the President to be more decent. Such counsel never has any particular
> effect anyhow, any more than a half dozen "progressive" congressmen.
>
> Our allies are not counseling anyone; they are saying WE might to this to
> increase the number of militants at our demos and militants at our meetings
> engaging in the collective thinking we have to do. I suppose this fellow
> could become an ally by joining Freedom Road or even RCP and making public
> speeches about how vicious everything every establishment economist has said
> for half a century and that we need to kick the government out, not the
> people who are in government. Public figures who make that kind of a splash
> may help, but on the whole I think we can ignore them.

Seems like OWS welcomed Sachs to speak Liberty Plaza.

This has already been linked on list, but as a reminder
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/30/jeffrey-sachs-speaks-to-occupy-wall-street/

So it seems like the OWS does accept him as an ally.


>
> #OWS is telling leftists something too. At least for the period immediately
> ahead we are not begging the powers that be for anything; we are mobilizing
> and expanding our own ranks.
>
> Carrol
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of MICHAEL YATES
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:19 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] sachs and poland
>
>
> Gar, I'll tell you what.Next time there is a big strike, why don't you write
> to Sachs and ask him to donate money to the strikers. And join their picket
> line. Then get back to us. And if you talk to him, demand that he apologize
> to all he hurt. Former addicts on the 12-step program do that, why not
> Sachs? Get back to us on that too.
>
>
>
> Sachs will support whatever he wants to support no matter what I say or
> whether I like him or not. If he supports good things, good.But let's not be
> overly respectful, grateful even, of someone who has been an asshole and
> whose advice helped cause people to die just because his views now overlap
> some with our own (I should speak for myself here; his views may overlap a
> great deal with yours). And I don't see any need to solicit his support.
> He'll give it or he won't. And my guess is that in the end, it won't matter
> much either way.
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