Could we introduce a little perspective here? I spent Saturday afternoon at the conference too. Some interesting information, a few sharp insights, certainly worth a Saturday afternoon. But it was just a conference of 2000 predominantly academic leftists--not a sit-in, march, demonstration, or any other kind of real organizing activity. Quite rightly, it has never pretended to be anything else. May be it is in the nature of list serve threads that PEN-L is now debating revolutionary vs. reformism socialism, but isn't another sign of political impotence that a conference--yes, a weekend conference!--has so quickly degenerated into this debate?
Joel Blau
Doug Henwood wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Michael Hoover wrote:
i confess to not knowing what constitutes revolutionary socialism
Me either, and I wish someone would explain it to me. Armed takeover of the White House and the New York Stock Exchange? Really, could some self-identified RS clarify?
Doug
The first thing to do is to quit asking fake questions in which you aren't really interested.
Those are real questions. Who are you to declare them fake? I could just as easily declare your reaction to be one of someone caught holding an incoherent, fantastic point of view. The idea of revolution in the U.S. or any of its imperial peers seems like the stuff of a drug-induced reverie right now. I'd like to hear someone argue to the contrary.
Doug
