On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the one hand, lefties moan about the absence of a mass movement. On > the other, they moan about the conservative nature of an actually > existing mass electoral movement. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld > paraphrasing Marx, you fight the revolution with the mass movement you > have, not the one wish you had. > > The what-is-to-be-done question of the day isn't about the > deficiencies of the Obama programme. That's a no-brainer. The question > should be about what's going on beneath the surface and how the > phenomenal embrace of vague "change" can be channeled into struggle > for fundamental real change. > > -- > Sandwichman > > ^^^^ > CB: And , Sandwichman, if I might be so bold , you are sort of paraphrasing > Obama who repeatedly says "change comes from the bottom up, not from the top > down" ( He sounds like a Solidarity member or MIchael Liebowitz with "from > below"). Obama makes it clear that "It's on y'all".
True that. If folks wait to see what BHO and his cabinet will do to make the change, they aren't going to get the change they need. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
