Re: [A-List] Populism or Neoliberalism?

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

On 7/24/07, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>   > The question is whether your program in fact makes things better for
> > people than those that you criticize and whether you can win a
> > critical mass of people to your program so you can actually put it
> > into practice.
>
> You really have the outlook of somebody who is making an investment
> rather than a revolutionary.

The thing is that you can't do any politics on your own.  You need
other people who agree with you and work with you.

It's not as if people, be they government officials or common people,
can't see problems of populist economy.  What's missing is clarifying
discussion of what they should be doing instead.  Few socialists
provide any perspective on that.  All concrete criticisms and
proposals of alternatives come from liberals.
--
Yoshie