Re: The Book of the Bourgeoisie (was Dennis Kucinich)
On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 4/1/07, Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com wrote:
it would seem like a waste of time
You know, most causes that US leftists ought to campaign for (before you can expect the rest of the US working class, who do not have the same understanding of the capitalist system as leftists, to get involved) — from establishing socialized medicine to slowing down climate change to ending the US wars in Iraq, et al. — are all “a waste of time,”
Not at all. Single-payer and action on climate change are far more
achievable than electing any kind of leftist president. And someow,
some way, the U.S. is going to leave Iraq. Those are in a completely
different realm of difficulty from presidential politics. The
president is the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie, as the
Sparts put it, and the bourgeoisie is far more likely to concede on
these three issues (they’re already moving on climate change) than on
who inhabits the Oval Office.
You complain that activists do not take interest in theory
Yup. If they did, the above points would be obvious to them.
Doug