Re: Harvey Milk, A Gay Urban Populist

[Gar Lipow <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/27/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Deindustrialization of cities and suburbanization of industrial
> jobs is now too far gone and nearly complete in many places, making
> Milk's argument for creating jobs in cities rather than welfare
> programs for the structurally unemployed, which too have been
> destroyed, out of date.

Hmm - would a WPA like program (without the horrible conditions WPA
often subjected people to) really be obsolete?  In the absence of an
organized left, it is not on the agenda. But if we ever are able to
build a movement again would we really rule it out as a demand? Or are
you simply saying that limiting it to cities is obsolete; if so that
was true even in Harvey Milk's time.