On 2013-06-12, at 10:17 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The subject line personifies "The Left." No such entity exists so how can it > stop or not stop anything? > > Almost _all_ propositions with "The Left" as the subject are illusory, having > no referent.
It's pretty clear who Sam Webb and others who use the generic term "the left" are referring to - liberal Democrats, social democrats, CP'ers, Trotskyists, Maoists, anarchists, and all those who, whatever their differences, commonly support the struggles, the gains, and the institutions of workers, national minorities, women, gays, environmentalists, civil libertarians, etc. against those who oppose those struggles, would rollback those gains, and destroy those organizations if they could. >> -----Original Message-----4 >> From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:07 PM >> To: Progressive Economics >> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The left needs to stop self-marginalizing >> >> "c b" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> http://peoplesworld.org/the-left-needs-to-stop-self-marginalizing/ >> >>> The left needs to stop self-marginalizing >> >>> by: Sam Webb >>> June 10 2013 >> >>> For too long the left has not been a major player on our political >>> scene. ... >> >> The shotgun approach might work, but identifying the top 3 goals >> might help us concentrate our effort. >> >> The first might be to make the private ownership of capital so small it >> can be drowned in the bathtub. >> >> -- >> Ron >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
