The latest disappointment: Cornel West.Archived Message
Posted by Morrissey on June 11, 2023, 9:44 pm
... Cornel was asked a specific question: What exactly would you do to end war? How does he respond? “I’m a jazzman” blah blah blah. As not a jazzman but a Jew would say, Oy vey. For such a knowledgeable fellow, this was positively awful. The great appeal of Bernie Sanders was that he had a very concrete program that he reiterated almost to the point of tedium on every possible occasion. Cornel typically goes on and on about capitalism, racism, imperialism, sexism, neoliberalism… Such lifeless abstractions might excite a handful of activists but it will never generate a mass movement. I still believe that Cornel can pick up where Bernie left off. But I hope he will reflect hard on what Bernie did right.