[lbo-talk] How long can the Lesser Evil Stay in Power?

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Mar 14 04:15:19 PDT 2012


damn.i thought you'd be more apt to bitch about the implication that bright guys are more likely to have politically correct views!

At 12:31 AM 3/14/2012, Carrol Cox wrote:
>"This is what even as bright a guy as Noam Chomsky seems to miss,
>somehow. Curious."
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>I think I can see Chomsky's rationale. Unlike many on this list and
>elsewhere, he is aware that only mass movements and direct action make a
>significant difference. His hope, then, may each time be that before the
>inevitable drift to the right of electoral politics such a movement will
>emerge. That would correspond to the " radical change of some sort" I
>mentioned in my first post. Of course the likelihood of such a movement is
>lessened if every four years most those who might help bring it into
>existence desert politics for electoral day-dreaming.
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>Carrol
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