Glad to hear Corey Robin add his voice to what really should be basic common sense. -raghu.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Corey Robin: it's not just a victory over the Establishment; it's an > opportunity to school the Left. > > > https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/michigan-primary-bernie-sanders-nomination/ > > [...] > > The Left loves social movements. I do, too. But social movements don’t > happen in a political vacuum; they’re not immune to the mood and medium of > electoral politics. There’s nothing quite like a presidential campaign for > taking pots and kettles long simmering on the Left’s back burner and > bringing them to a furious boil > <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/bernie-sanders-primary-socialists-third-party/> > . > > That means two things. First, we do have to remain focused on primaries > and delegate counts. It’s only so long as there is a viable campaign that > we have the opportunity for a conversation on such a massive scale. There’s > a set of leftists who think the revolution will come from small > conversations in socialist study groups and reading circles, that the way > to radicalize is by simply “talking to people” — which really means talking > at people — in the absence of some galvanizing question that brings those > people to the table. > > Anyone who’s selling you that line is either out of touch or trying to > sign you up for their classes. They want to make you believe you can just > get people to think and argue and reflect in a vacuum, without some real > taste of power in the here and now. That’s not how it works. > > [...] > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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