Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:20 PM -0700 9/13/04, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> So, your alternative is to talk about why we are fucked and can't do
> anything? Because the country sure as hell doesn't want socialist
> revolution, and under foreseeably attainable circumstances won't be
> able to have it anyway. So what exactly do you think we should be
> doing? Don't tell me what we shouldn't be doing, but what you think
> we should.

It's worthwhile to get 10-20% of Americans who are opposed to any US
war into the same political party -- maybe the Green Party or a new
political party -- rather than voting for the Democrats or not voting
at all.

It makes sense to build up people's capacity for democratic
participation, especially in the post-70s capitalist world where
crumbs from the ruling class table are fewer and smaller.
--
Yoshie

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