[PEN-L:33066] Re: Re: ANSWER, NION, United for Peace, & Win Without War

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>

> I just don't see the sort of categories on which Sam Smith insists:
> "an ideological left centered in New York City," "The intellectual
> left, in its academic variety at least," "The institutional left,
> much of it headquartered in Washington," "what might be called
> iconographic left, which uses the power of images, sounds and words,"
> and "The really important left -- the idiomatic, colloquial left of
> people who never read the Nation, let alone have a column in it."
> There are social and political divisions among those who are opposed
> to the war on Iraq, but, IMHO, important divisions don't fall into
> the categories that Smith created.

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Well, who gets to define/create what counts as the important divisions?
Given my understanding of how leftists are organized in various
metropoles and institutional sites in the US, SS categories seem pretty
accurate.



> >
> >Now if I could fit those answers into 5 paragraph
email...................:-)
>
> Then, you can discuss it in a series of postings.
> --
> Yoshie

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Or I could write a book about it or set up a website handling the issues
at hand or I could simply encourage you to think through all the common
sense approaches of organizing 101 that work and don't work.  Some of
the organizers of the WTO left some tips at:

http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/

Feel free to separate the self-promotions from tactics/strategy stuff.

Ian