Re: Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!)

On Jun 16, 2007, at 11:37 AM, ravi wrote:

A [genuine] question: what is the basis of solidarity? Surely it is more than back-scratching?

With class, in part, a common role in production, broadly conceived. =

But that’s not necessarily visible to the naked eye - it takes a lot =

of organizing and educating to make it clear. On nonclass things, =

common humanity. It was touching to read the story in the NYT =

yesterday about the Massachusetts legislators who switched their vote =

on same-sex marriage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/us/15gay.html

One legislator who switched his vote was Representative Paul =

Kujawski, Democrat of Uxbridge, saying meetings with gay and =

lesbian constituents convinced him that =93I couldn=92t take away the =

happiness those people have been able to enjoy.=94

Doug

Leave a Reply