Re: What the results tell us…
On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
That is a problem - you seem to prefer ideological purity to pragmatism. I share your opinion of the American system, but I do
not think that rebuilding it from the scratch is a viable option. Nothing
ever is rebuilt from the scratch - even the most revolutionary movements
are built on the already existing institutional resources.
Division of labor, Woj. Moderate reformism is powerless without a
radical mobilization; there’d never be social democracy without some
threat of total expropriation. Therefore, realists like yourself need
radicals like Chuck, because otherwise, no one would pay attention.
Doug