On 8/25/06, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You said it.
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As Marx said in his oft-quoted 1851 letter to Humboldt-Wickenheiser: "Aubauf
geheit
geborn die egherebeshen geshwicht" - roughly translated as "there is nothing
left to the left but to scorn the left."
Ha, ha, ha, no doubt Marx felt that way after the waning of the 1848
revolutionary wave.
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Yoshie
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