Movement building has to continue. Awareness of the damage done by global capital
is quite widespread. The question is: what to do about it. I believe the solution
of simply abolishing it has been proved wrong, so we have to "muddle through" and
find our answers in practice.
Bill Mandel
Ted Morgan wrote:
> Welcome back folks & Happy New Year --may it be one of progressive and
> movement-building breakthroughs!
>
> I'm not sure Bill meant this to sound quite as defeatist as I read it...
>
> >William M. Mandel" wrote: "... at this point, New Deal or social-democratic
> capitalism is the >most progressive thing available, and the job is to hang on
> to it to the degree that it exists, >and to muddle through until future
> generations work out something better...."
> but my take is to do quite a bit more than "hang on" to what we have (sounds
> like an unintended Gitlinesque justification for supporting Al Gore); in fact
> to work on the project of "working out something better." Movement building,
> as I'm sure Bill would agree, has to continue, and it ought I think to lay the
> groundwork for a radical consciousness about global capital and the injuries
> it inflicts.
> Ted Morgan
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