[lbo-talk] those demands? forget about 'em!

[Carrol Cox]

It is very near to lunacy to look for the existence, in the present, of a
conscious left socialist movement. I imagine someone in 1775 watching the
new steam engine drive a loom had complained that the Bonneville Dam was not
being built. This sort of mental wandering is absurd iin the presence of
asocial hurricane. Anyone who focuses on either the virtues or the
strengths, either the mistakes or the right things, going on within the
Occupations has exiled him/herself from history. 

It's a new world. Think forward rather than all this wallowing in the
details of someone OWS or some one GA. 

Seriously: It is lunacy to look for any finished political entity in the
present. Shag said it all earlier this morning:

"i really don't understand why anyone here should ever think that a
"movement" should emerge fully-formed wielding a mighty anti-capitalist
ideology, ready to tear down capitalism and, uh, take over state power."

One can speak of specific "problems" in an organized ongoing party program.
It is juvenile to squeak about problems with the OWS.. Take a look at
Blake's "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau" (paraphrased from memory). Blake
is speaking directly to the "critics" of OWS as though it were a Party or a
Party Program. Such critics are simply absenting themselves from history.

Carrol