I will take that as agreement with my analysis (or at least prima facie evidence) as to why there is such a dearth of active engagement on the International pages, compared to the Canadian pages. It appears that there are a lot more Babblers happily engaged in debating the future of mainstream socialism (compromised or not) in Canada than engaging with the politics of refusal as you describe over on the International pages.
Just as there is no viable route of appeal to the existing political arena with respect to domestic issues, the same situation exists in relation to international matters. For many it seems that matters of life and death don't appear as immediate on the domestic front by comparison with the international front, where life and death glares back at us whenever we spare the time to look at it. People are more comfortable with gazing into the dregs of the political misfortunes closer to home because there are not nearly as many ghastly images staring back. That way they can busy themselves in good conscience with the work of repopulating the term 'mainstream socialism' with newer information and relevancy, in keeping with the requirements of capital and their own exigencies of course, which are closely related.
But if that's the line in the sand you are inclined to draw on matters global (NDP = "common cause with deadly imperialism") its Babble's loss, I think.
The comparison wasn't initiated by me.
