On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carrol opined: "The problem is not the Republicans, or even the vicious
> policies of the
> Obama Administration, but capitalism.:
>
> [WS:] That is some winning strategy, indeed. The enemy is not a real
> person or group of people but an abstraction. Let's fight abstractions,
> the Satan or wind mills if you will, not real people with real power.
Slavoj Zizke doesn't always make a lot of practical sense, but he said somewhere recently that if the left can't speak to the actual difficulties of people's daily lives, it will get nowhere. There's a way to fight "capitalism" and do that at the same time. But just fighting "capitalism" will get you nowhere except laughed off the stage.
Doug