Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

[Kenneth Campbell <kkc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aldo --

I enjoyed your post. I like the 3 chaps you happened to mention in the
opening, so that part wasn't my fave.

Aside from that, I agree, and I like the style. I have often thought of
the Godot parallel. That was the thing that attracted me most to Mr.
Marx, the early idea of his about being part of the world, not
commenting on it.

I see politics as chess, or any other strategy game in which conditions
change. Attack and defense are important. It is not the death matches of
Lutheran era religious-political affiliations. I encourage an energized
Democratic party as part of the process. I am not a Democrat, but,
without them, you get the Republicans stacking the Supreme Court and
reducing life to still worse conditions and making anything else
impossible short of extreme mismanagement.

I can support many things without becoming an "-ist" of it.

On the other hand, Democrats are only energized when there is a mass of
support for them. And that isn't there... Right now, there is just
nothing in the US. (I'm in Canada, a different subject.) But that
doesn't mean it wouldn't change in a flash. Previous geo-politicists
have noted that things can change according to meal schedules, for
instance.

"Marxists" are, unfortunately, currently very depressing. They are like
a braukellar gang crying in their beer about the old days.

But Marx himself was inspiring. He was intelligent. cut through media
mythology (such as he knew it) and always attached himself to something
happening. When he was at the crest of a wave, he was gun-shy, true, he
didn't want deaths on his hands. But so what. Movements are not directed
by people. They are aided by people.

So, I applaud you trying to present real world policies. Only when there
are alternatives, are their alternatives. :-) And they can sometimes
seep into the public discourse in the oddest of ways...

Ken.

--
Man will never arrive.
Man will always be on the way.
          -- Carl Sandburg