[lbo-talk] Politics vs the DP

[Carrol Cox]

I don't much care what mere voters or mere observers do. I'm concerned 
by the way in which the DP bleeds movements not only of 'mass followers' 
but of organizers and leadership. There are really good people in the 
Committees of correspondence -- wasted. "Clean for Gene" is archetypal 
as it were. The source of it is not any illusions about the DP but about 
the electoral system -- and even there it's less illusions about the 
electoral system than a despair of real politics, a feeling of 
hopelessness in any other route. Some of this would fade quickly with 
the eruption of a new period of political activity. Wisconsin, as a 
friend points out, is a tiny tiny fissure ...we'll see. Many openings 
never develop.

Carrol

P.S. About the best development of the point in my subject line is to be 
found in the works of Hannah Arendt.

On 6/14/2011 9:18 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:38 PM, SA<s11131978 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> C.f. Wojtek:
>>
>>   Kvetching about Democrats seems to fit that mold,
>>      
>>> but it also smacks of juvenile contumacy - I will stomp my feet and
>>> curse at my mom because she did not give me what I wanted.  Without
>>> this child-parent frame, kvetching about Democrats makes little sense
>>> - nobody kvetches about an asshole stranger who did not give us what
>>> we wanted.
>>>
>>>        
>>
>>      
> Well hell, Woj, why then do you spend so much time kvetching about folks
> here?
> Feeling contumal, juvenile or just nonsensical?
> Have we not provided you what you wanted?
> Are you saying we're a-holes?
> Is the operative phrase: "Who's your mama?" or "Physician heal thyself?"
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