[lbo-talk] “It provokes screams from the left”

[c b]

Liberals and despairing leftists keep trying to find some way to avoid
facing the fact that Obama is by conviction their enemy -- not their
weak or silly friend. Of course our enemies have many strong marginal
differences among themselves that they can and do get very angry
about; just as leftists can quarrel among themselves. Leftists just
have to forget about Washington, D.C. and go to work nursing those
elements of a movement that have been appearing around the nation in
many localities. Left causes are always iffy -- capital is just too
strong. But that makes it even more insane not to put energies where
they have some chance rather than this endless wailing that our
enemies are not being kind to us.

This is just a footnote to Voyou , not an argument with his post.

Carrol

^^^^^^^

CB: Liberals and leftists and Carrol navel gaze when they debate the
issue of whether Obama is _ their_ "friend or enemy", appropriately
chummy rather than political terms reflecting  a personal rather than
a class basis of analysis. All sorts of subjectivity creeps in by this
approach , distorting political thinking.   It ain't personal ; if's
political.   The key issue is what role Obama as an institution, the
President,  plays in relation to the class struggle between the
working class and the bourgeoisie in a period when the ruling class is
overwhelmingly dominant compared to 50 years ago.

The "left" that Obama may be seeking to provoke is not the left that
Carrol refers to. It is the mass of seniors who are angered by any
mention of touching Social Security.  They are the most capable of
getting up politically and making him not do it and fighting the
TP'ers all across the board.