Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:02:38 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: BHA: Kolko, The Age of Unilateral War Richard Moodey wrote: > > > > >and the last year has seen an enormous inflow of new activists on the > >left. (Most of them locally are still bewitched and deluded by the hope > >of capturing the DP, but that is to be expected.) Nearly 30% of > >americans _still_ opposed the war even after combat had begun. That is > >an awesomely large number, all potential constitutency for the left. > > Al Gore lost the last presidential election with 51% of the popular vote. > I'm assuming that our focus on the left is the building of a mass movement (or movements), and 30% of the population is actually larger (if it were activated) than any mass movement in history. Fifteen to 20 percent of the population can make a revolution or overthrow Jim Crow. And of course Gore's 51% of the vote was rather less than 25% of potential voters and much less than 25% if you add aliens (legal and illegal) and convicted felons -- and its residents, not citizens or registered voters that count for the left. Carrol > Dick > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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