[Ssf] Left wing?

[Dan]

 From Open Democracy.org, about the US election - thought it was quite 
apt for the social forum movement too!

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-77-2289.jsp

"The ringing calls to opposition on the part of the readers of small 
left-wing magazines do not impress me, nor do I believe that America is 
secretly a left-wing country that is simply awaiting the clarion call. 
That was a Ralph Nader and Howard Dean fantasy, and there’s no evidence 
for it. That’s why I don’t think the lesson to learn from Kerry’s defeat 
is that he should have been more left-wing.

"I agree with Colin Greer about being oppositional, but it has to be 
oppositional in a way that’s persuasive to Americans. My belief is that 
getting out of the sealed rooms and gated communities of the left and 
doing politics with people who are unlike you is to participate in the 
essence of politics."

Dan

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