[PEN-L:3398] Re: Canada (Bill)

[knowware@xxxxxxxx (Tom Walker)]

Bill Burgess wrote,

>OK, "fighting" is a crude term. But how can the 'left' "select, prune,
>train" and especially "harvest" without political power? Or do you have in
>mind some kind of tactical alliance with the most promising capitalist
>plants against the bourgeois weeds and deadwood? The NBER study suggests
>the latter are the family-controlled corporate pyramids, so I guess this
>alliance is exactly opposite to the one you said the left has beein
>pursuing in the last couple of decades with 'rentier' capitalism. Boy, that
>really is swimming against the stream!

I wouldn't suggest for a moment that a different strategy would be easier.
But to continue your metaphor, if the left wants to spawn, it's going to
have to _learn_ to swim against the stream.

regards,

Tom Walker