Re: [A-List] Practice

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/23/07, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > I'm under no illusion that such activism as I engage here in Ohio
> > makes any difference at all to anyone.  Under the present conditions,
> > we are lucky when we get out a couple of hundreds of people for any
> > cause in Columbus.  That is the reality.  Those who disagree should
> > refute it by practice.
>
> Who is talking about activism? I am no activist myself although I did
> put in 23 solid years from 1967 to 1990. I am talking about analyzing
> politics and class relationships in the USA.

It's my analysis of politics and class relations, as well as others',
that leads me to believe that there will be no major opening in the
short term.  Objective conditions that made for the long thirties and
the long sixties no longer exist; and most people who still identify
as "leftists" in America are, for all intents and purposes, social
liberals, very much devoted to the Democratic Party (and when they
give up on it, they become not Marxists but conspiracy theorists).  If
anyone has a sensible strategy that makes sense under these particular
objective and subjective conditions, I'm all ears.
--
Yoshie