[lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jul 18 09:08:09 PDT 2013


This was originally sent under an incorrect subject line. My error. I resend it with original text unchanged, though it is a rather clumsy piece of writing.

Original Subject Line: Subject: RE: Response To Online Inquiry

Original Post: (With irrelevant quoted post from MEDCO clipped)

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Self-identified leftists who in fact are at most cheerleaders from the sidelines are almost always extreme voluntarists, utterly unconscious of what they are saying. I wonder what the street address is of this Left that delivers a message to 300 million people as easily ad Fox & CBS do but fails abysmally to say anything that those 300 million readers remain unimpressed by.

Some one called Webb moans that "The Left" fails because it does not support the DP; then when the meaning of "The Left" is challenged, the challenge is responded to by giving a long list of unorganized clumps of individuals, almost all of whom do support the DP.

No one ever even asks why capitalism is so fucking strong. They just stupidly feel that all that is required is for a few thousand leftists be smart and the walls will crumble.

Idiots. That is not a judgment of "intelligence" but of social position.

Carrol



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