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That's funny!

Posted by: Stuart Gort ( USA ) on February 09, 19100 at 11:11:59:

In Reply to: More revolution by the Marlboro Man posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on February 07, 19100 at 10:27:16:

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: : Yes, Green campaigns may very well be 'only a chance to create a national complaint about capitalism,' but Green campaigns are not necessarily the only 'chance to create a national complaint about capitalism.'

: : A boycott alone does that---and more: a boycott adds to the complaint that not even a Green in the White House would make a difference. And that conclusion is a revolutionary conclusion: it means the White House (etc.) must go.

: SDF: Bullshit. Election boycotts will be ignored, as they are today. There is no difference between "boycotting" an election and being too busy to make it to the polls. No assumptions can be made about mass consciousness on the basis of failure to vote.

That's right! If that were true then I might inclined to percieve political apathy to be the result of satiating effect of the largess of capitalism. Barry doesn't let me do that but he sure sees things his way when it suits him.

Stuart Gort


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