Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > And it's taken about 2 years for 9/11 to wear off. It's not really > all that surprising. >
I want to put in a word here for the perspective, not that polls are bullshit, but that "the left" or various left activists should always have their attention focused on what is the most probable state of public opinion two or three years (or even more) in the future. In fact, only in a revolutionary situation should the left ever pay much attention to the immediate present. See Bertell Ollman, _Dialectical Investigations_, pp. 3-4. Carrol P.S. But not on the distant future beyond the disappearance of capitalism, as in the recent parecon thread. One considers _that_ future only for the light it sheds on the present. Ollman is good on this too. > Doug
