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I'm glad you took the time and spent the effort to do this, Louis. I was looking at myself when I first saw it and tried, without success, to take up the cudgel over it. But it struck me as o internally circular and ahistorical that is seemed like a Herculean labor just to unravel all the flawed assumptions, half-truths, etc. It's a bit like those Ronald Reagan buttons from the 1980s that threw an image of Lincoln alongside Reagon for the sake of giving it some historical street cred . . . but not really going deeper than the paint . . . though volumes could be written correcting the misunderstandings of such comparisons. Reconstructions don't happen because of some top-down decision from within the structure of power. And you don't get pressure from the bottom up, unless you are ready to challenge the legitimacy of that power structure, In Bat-crap Crazy Upside-down Inside-out America, the people who want to keep doing what hasn't accomplished anything for decades call themselves "pragmatists," who call those who propose thinking about doing something innovative "idealogues." In reality, the only real "idealogue" in this debate, are those with a ready made formulaic solution to be applied to each and every election based on a fantasy of what happened 80 years ago. All to do what's deflated the labor movement, demobilized the black community, and left the antiwar forces befuddled and iosolated. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
