On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:18:54AM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: > > Yeah, that's true. But not so comical to the young people who launched > lefthook.org a few months ago. When I met with them this weekend, we kicked > around some ideas about what role that their website might play in a couple
Yes, what can we do to spread the kind of enthusiasm you are describing with the lefthook people? > The socialist movement grows not by convincing people of the > need for socialism, but through a critique of capitalism and effective > leadership of the mass movement. B-52's raining Volkswagen size bombs on > peasant villages recruited me to socialism, not elegant descriptions of the > "benefits" of a future world. Absolutely, which is why I try to deflect us from behaving antagonistically on the list. I would rather help us develope a critique. At the same time, a vision of socialism is not to be denied. Not a detailed, elegant description, but a vision of why people might be willing to make a break with the devil that they know .... -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
