Re: For revolutionary factionalism not sectarian lunacy

[Adam Levenstein <cleon42@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with Lou, who I think doesn't want to form a grouplet that's
> just
> going to be another isolated, group of leftists talking to each
> other.
> Basically, I think, the time is not ripe. In a context where the
> forces
> identified by Lou are insurgent, where a mass anticapitalist movement
> is
> growing, an organization that expresses and fights for their
> aspirations
> can play a positive role, perhaps becoming part of a leadership that
> springs largely from those forces or helping to develop such a
> leadership.
> But, a few leftists, even ones with good ideas, deciding to form a
> group,
> won't "sow the seeds of a mass movement."

Fine then, don't. On the other hand, those of us who actually want to
change the world will actually TRY to. Please excuse our naivete and
"good ideas."

Who was it that said "philosophers have merely interpreted the world;
the point is to change it?" I don't remember...Couldn't have been
anyone important anyway. After all, I guess the point is to interpret
the world until it decides to change itself.


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