Re: MR & Maoism
On Aug 28, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
It wouldn’t make any difference in the larger scheme of things if all leftists in the USA ditched any residual commitment to something like socialism and became rightists, except that, in that case, there would be a glut of former leftists larger than the Right’s demand for them.
Man, I’ver never been very giddy about the state of the US left, but
your pessimism about it, which is no doubt related to your embrace of
Iranian theocrats, is really excessive. I’d guess that 10-15% of the
US pop has firmly left politics of some sort. It has influence in the
media, the universities, and political activism, and in a bunch of
towns and cities across the country. Lacking that minority, with all
its divisions and ideological confusions, would make this a far more
barbaric place than it already is.
Doug