frank scott wrote:
>
> if we waited for "the left" to do something like this...oh well, no
> further comments...right on to the libertarians, in this instance...
> fs
>

Before "the left" can be praised or blamed for anything it must first
exist. As of now (at least in the U.S. and I suspect in most nations)
there simply is no left -- though there are many scattered individual
leftists. Moreover, we really do not know how to bring a left into
existence: From my reading of history, in the early stages of a "left"
appearing, neither the individuals involved nor onlookers recognize it
as a left.

There is a major misreading of WITBD linked to this -- Lenin never
condemned the spontaneous movement, he condemned those who offered to
lead such movements from behind. All major political movements are, it
seems to me, spontaneous (in some sense) in their early stages and seen
as such only retrospectively.

We who are "leftists" without a left are like Becket's characters
"waiting for godot." We can't, it seems, will a movement into existence.

Carrol