Shane writes:
On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
[...]
...by not coming out and confronting the right wingers, the
liberal left and the left overall may be shooting themselves in the
foot.
This is 100% wrong. It is by not coming out and confronting the Obama/
Clinton health scam even more vocally than the stupid right that the
"left" are "shooting themselves in the foot."
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I can think of many historical instances where the left allied with liberals
in opposing assaults from the right. I can't recall any, however, where
Marxists, left wing social democrats, and others counselled that the best
defence in these confrontations was to turn their fire on a hesitating
leadership. Can Shane? They considered they could best expose the
shortcomings of their leaders in action, by doing what the latter would or
could not, by rallying others in the fight against reaction. In this way,
their ideas would not fall on deaf ears. This is Julio's point. How is it
different this time?
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