Michael Hoover wrote:
perhaps he should go back to doing what he does best, what
mainstream (specifically, 'rational choice') poli sci people call
'political entrepreneur', takes lead in setting up and operating
groups, lets others 'free ride' to give appearance of broad-based
support, political activity akin to 'business decision', nader as
'founder' of interest group lobbies/'astroturf' political orgs is
'good investment', nader as candidate is 'bad investment'...
It's a vicious circle: leftists who could have become charismatic
party intellectuals and organizers become political entrepreneurs
instead because there is no mass political party on the left, and it
is extremely difficult to create any mass political party on the left
because smart leftists become political entrepreneurs rather than
help organize such a party.
And it's impossible to make a mass political party out of a
collection of confirmed political entrepreneurs, who are like
"potatoes in a sack of potatoes," to steal Marx's phrase.
--
Yoshie
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* Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
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