Re: My looniness

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> cbcox@xxxxxxxxx 06/28/00 05:27PM >>>And Rod also wrote:

> Oh Carrol get with the programme. You are to organize all the True
> Believers and take them off to Jonestown

It has occurred to me that in speaking of political activity many of us
do not make clearly enough the distinction between agitation and
organizing. They are inseparable in practice, but they are distinguishable
and should be distinguished in thought. My central concern in reference
to the issue of global warming is that I think Mark's and Lou's
own intensity has concealed for them that for large masses of people
global warming will *not* work as agitational material. People *can*
(have been / will be) mobilized around issues most of which demand
concern for a future beyond that of those in motion. It's just that as
a point of departure global warming will not work.

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CB: I don't think the facts of the recent history of party formation support you here, Carrol. The biggest new party in the world in the last 40 years is the Greens. We are a long way from Lady Bird's "Don't be a litterbug" campaign.

Another example, the one demonstration held in conjunction with the Detroit BRC meeting was to protest a polluted dump on Wabash street. A leader of Detroiters for Environmental Justice was a co-chair of the BRC host committee.

I think a lot more people than explicitly express it now, have by common sense in the back of their mind a concern that they can't just keep "partying" at this level without paying  the piper eventually.

It is like smoking cigarettes. If given a way and if everybody else starts stopping,  they would like to stop.

Also, to me , the struggle against nuclear weapons is half an "environmental" struggle.

CB