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Context of rationality
??the struggle for political power is every bit as important as the
struggle to discover the correct ideological path. It is time for the
entire
left to realize that correct ideology by itself can never win the day
under bourgeois democracy, by definition. It seems sometimes we
forget that revolution must by necessity be an irrational act, in
defiance of the tyrannical logic based on data of the system
revolutionaries oppose.
?To change the world, one must take power.?
---Henry C. K. Liu
?In fact, revolutions do create a new logic through action, a logic that
cannot but be understood as "irrational" by the system, which tends
to structure the forms of rationality in agreement with its objective,
material necessities.
?They will always call us irrational. And they are right --from their
own point of view!
?Who cares? Let us struggle for power.?
---Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
In the context of humanity by all its definitions, capitalism is
irrational,
and thus it would seem logical to posit that acts to bring it to an end
are
most rational.
(I submit further that the agency of "one" taking power must refer both
to the radicalization of the individual revolutionary and the
revolutionary
class.)
--your humble comrade Chris
- Thread context:
- Merrily we roll it up.,
Chris Brady Fri 20 Oct 2000, 21:35 GMT
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Chris Brady Fri 20 Oct 2000, 19:35 GMT
- Context of rationality,
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- Re: Debating slavery: Mark's discussion,
Charles Brown Fri 20 Oct 2000, 18:58 GMT
- The Great Unmentionable,
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