Re: [Marxism] 'Left' Obamites Prefer Kool-Aid to Struggle

["S. Artesian" <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr Lause writes first:  "Most immediately, they [progressive Democrats] 
can't retain those  vast legions younger Obama supporters now facing chronic 
unemployment  and underemployment without having something to show them." 
And follows it immediately with:  " President Obama himself has the power 
and the skills to do this, if he cares to focus on them."

What exactly are those powers and skills?  It is exactly the nature of this 
point in capitalism, in fact the meaning of this predicament, that all those 
"progressive power and skills"  have been and are being proven impotent and 
hapless.

Obama can, of course, find/make a war, big enough to gainfully employ 
several million in their own destruction in the pursuit of three squares a 
day, and that is pretty much what being a progressive boils down to, but 
somehow I don't think that is what the "vast legions facing unemployment" 
are looking for.

So exactly what can Obama do?  What skills does he possess?  Other than the 
fact that he's not a moron as his predecessor was, what skills and power?  I 
think Obama is actually less powerful in executing any policy he might 
endorse,  believing as he most surely does in consensus, national unity, 
bi-partisanship, unlike his predecessor who believed only in what god and 
Cheney told him, not giving a damn for what the untrue non-believers might 
think.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Lause" <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism]'Left' Obamites Prefer Kool-Aid to Struggle



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