File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2003/bhaskar.0305, message 6


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
> 
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