While left wing electors in the US pose what seems to me to be the
wrong question - whether Kerry is the lesser evil to Bush - does
anyone notice how much the shape of the beach is shifting under the
pressure of events?
(I am referring to the consumerist model of the bourgeois two party
system as
I am not sure about the tides, but in response to Chris's post below, I have
been struck by the apparent popularity and political positioning of a new radio
network in the United States, Air America. This network has a series of radio
programs that define themselves as being on the left. In fact
I cannot remember a time with so many left documentaries getting screen
time -- even ignoring Michael Moore. Supersize this, control room, the
corporation
Maybe our time is coming. And then, maybe not.
Michael
A significant constituency on the left has materialized in recent years,
propelled by anti- (alter-) globalization actions, mobilizations
against the Iraq war, etc. This demographic has been discovered by the
entertainment industry, which is ready to sell to them. To say this is
not to denigrate
I am sorry. I thought it was because of our revolutionary work on
pen-l.
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A significant
Just spoke to my chess partner. He said that our mutual friend, who
lives in Newt Gingrich's district, just went to see Farenheit 911. The
audience was filled with the kind of people who vote for him, country
club Republicans. Not only was the theater packed, the film got a
standing ovation
Perelman, Michael wrote:
I cannot remember a time with so many left documentaries getting screen
time -- even ignoring Michael Moore. Supersize this, control room, the
corporation
Maybe our time is coming. And then, maybe not.
Several points.
1. Influencing people (which is what
Michael:
I am sorry. I thought it was because of our
revolutionary work on pen-l.
No Michael!
It was because of the revolutionary work of Bush and
the neocons, not that the democrats did and will do
any better.
Here is what Michael Ignatieff says in the below New
York Times Magazine
