While self-critique and learning from history and/or hindsight have their uses, they can go overboard. Blaming the right's ascendancy on "left excesses" seems quite possibly a case of the victims/vanquished biting on themselves. Indeed, if revolutionary change may be "the lion with seven heads," one or more will seem excessive to the others; as Cox points out, this is a matter of the unavoidable. Frankly, seeing some of what is happening these years to everyone but the upper "middle class" and upwards, I sometimes wish more of us had become more "excessive." Sorry if that sounds bitter, but we on this list are, for the most part, the "haves", guys. (Though indeed if global warming is proceeding so much faster.... Though I guess we remember the percentages (economic) into the Titanic's liferafts. Though, again, will this one *have* liferafts?) Paula
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