[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 11:33:38 PDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> If we can't mobilize a significant minority of the!
>  middle 75% of this society, then this movement will evaporate.

This confuses me. Are you saying that those 75% have no connection to prisoners and those "with no social power"? I'd venture that really large swathes of black 75-percenters would contest that assertion. Or are you saying that the 75% would be repulsed by appeals to the incarcerated and powerless? Again, I bet you'd find a lot of disagreement with that, from everywhere. Ever more pointedly, if the 75% were repulsed by solidarity with prisoners, then fuck 'em. I don't want to be a part of their "movement."



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