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• Friday, December 5, 2008 11:10 AM

  Guevara's Ghost

  I'm not much in to manifestos. I had hopes Glenn would give it a shot, being as that he is a dynamite polemicist and is becoming more radicalized by the day. But still there is the resistance to going that far, potentially triggering something beyond the standard fare: phoning, faxing, voting, giving money to candidates and causes. Anything more than that is potentially dangerous.

  Utter horseshit. No kidding you're not into manifestos. You're apparently "in to" blathering on. And "I had hopes Glenn would give it a shot." Get off your ass and do it yourself. And "potentially dangerous"--huh, this is rather like a schoolmarm reprimanding her revolutionary students for not spilling their blood fast--or copiously--enough.

  When the Bushevik Regime was new and weak and fragile, THAT's when fighting back might have made a huge difference at relatively slight cost. Now? They've had years to consolidate their objectives -- with the active assistance, don't forget, of the entire political class -- and it's really too late to do anything about it easily or through regular channels.

  And that's pretty goddamn convenient--there was a time when but, alas, no longer.

  I don't even know why I'm responding to this balderdash except that armchair revolutionaries with screen names like Che really irritate me.

  —Timothy3 Read Timothy3's other letters
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