Doug Henwood wrote:
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Or become leftists, religious or irreligious, without any base
communities, which describe most of us here perfectly.
There's really no broad cap-L Left movement in the US, but there are
plenty of left movements - labor, living wage, environmental,
feminist, GLBT, antiwar. Most would be unwilling to board your bus to
Tehran, though.
Doug
Most would be unwilling to get out of their armchairs to do anything
deemed unpopular by their pissant little social networks. The guy in the
next cubie might look askance at them.
Isn't America great? Isn't it great to be living in America? Where
social mobility is soooo important that it doesn't even matter where
that mobility leads?
That assuredly includes most 'left' (quotes intentional) organizations.
An old anarchist friend of mine (80+ years old) insists that the U.S.
left has been culturally assimilated to the point of ineffectuality. The
US Left looks Libertarian to me, always has.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
