[PEN-L:7720] Re:...MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

>Yoshie wrote:
>>Nobody is stopping Harald (or you for that matter) from organizing anti-war
>>activists according to the principles that he thinks (or you think) are
>>correct. It's not as though he and Chossudovsky belonged to the same
>>political party and the party adopted Chossudovsky's view.
>>
>>I don't know about Australia, but the field of anti-war activism is _wide
>>open_ here. Those who disagree with Chossudovsky should simply offer their
>>own analyses that other activists can use in organizing, preferably rich in
>>information. If Harald does so, I do not doubt that there will be many
>>takers.
>
>a lyotardian position i didn't expect.  does this mean that there should be
>no criticism and communication between positions?
>
>Angela

Why a Lyotardian position? Why not call it a Michael Perelman principle?

>My point must not have been clear at all.  This kind of shouting is
>pointless.  I happen to believe the Boshevik and the Chinese revolutions
>were wonderful events.  Max and Brad disagree.  So what?
>
>I could not convince them even if I could force them to read a whole
>library of email posts.  Why even try?  They begin with an entirely
>different set of premises, because they look at events in a different
>context.
>
>Don't we have more important uses for our time?

Or as Carrol says, we always preach to the converted--an important job of
mobilizing + organizing those who already accept our premise but have yet
to come forward.

BTW, with the Yugo acceptance of the NATO terms of peace, the terrains of
struggle, real and ideological, have already changed.

Yoshie