Re: [ox-en] hackers v 'politicians'

• From: Chris Croome <chris croome.net>
• Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:02:57 +0100

Hi

On Mon 18-Aug-2003 at 04:58:55AM -0400, Art McGee wrote:

Sectarians are generally paranoid, anti-democratic, and
closed to new ideas. I would agree that those folks don't
get it, no matter where they are. Maybe your connotation of
Trotskyist is more positive over there, but in the United
States, Trotskyists and those who identify too closely with
specific Marxist currents are generally nutcases. I don't
deal with those people. They are counter-revolutionaries.

Hmm, that is blunt! 

Perhaps the traditional left is essentially a product of
the mode of production of industrial capital and that this
is it's fundamental problem in the current period. If this
is the case it might also explain why the traditional left
organisations are so hopeless at making good use of the
internet (if people want some more examples of this I can
think of quite a few...!).

Chris

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