I haven’t watched this yet, but my knee-jerk reaction to your comment, Miriam,
directed at Hedges, not at you, is this: Fine. Let’s excoriate and vilify and
potentially destroy Sanders and end up with Trump? Not a good idea. Sometimes,
I get a little frustrated with the left’s insistence on perfection and
sometimes fairly vicious criticism of anything and anyone who isn’t perfect in
the speaker’s/writer’s eyes…
On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hedges gives a speech to the Green Party in Orange County California. To me,
it sounds more like a sermon than a speech. It contains a list of positions
which he insists, you must assume in order to be a socialist. Among these, is
the criminalization of sex work. I also think that the speech is an attack
on Bernie Sanders.
Miriam
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on What It Truly Means to Be a Socialist
In his recent speech before the Green Party of Orange County, Calif.,
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges talked passionately about socialism,
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and the moral imperative to revolt.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_chris_hedges_on_what_it_truly_means_to_be_a_socialist_20151018