>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/06/04 12:37 PM >>> figures associated with Dissent Magazine and the Nation have been aggressively attacking the Nader campaign, ANSWER and other groups and individuals to their left.
The left orients to a class that not only has no power; it is not even self-aware as a class. This tends to lend a certain abstruseness to ideological disputes on the left and encourage sectarianism. If the working class was in motion and saw the conquest of power as a goal, it would put enormous pressure on the left to unite. This process occurred in Nicaragua as described in George Black's "Triumph of the People". The 3 factions of the FSLN were practically ordered by the "muchachos" to set aside their differences and overthrow Somoza. Louis Proyect <<<<<>>>>> disputes between 'left' groups and mags is almost completely irrelevant to working people in u.s.... re. 'class consciousness', most american self-id as middle class, survey research offering upper, middle, lower options results in vast majority placing themselves in middle, however, when offered working class option, about 55% identify themselves as such (which is pretty close to michael zweig's 62% based on labor dept. data)... relevance of late 70s nicaraguan situation to current u.s.?... michael hoover
