Re: Re: Tom Kruse's world: was [the mita]

[Stephen E Philion <philion@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ichael Perelman writes:

>Someone whom I respected a great deal asked me earlier today what all of
this discussion has to do with real world struggles.  Tom Kruse, in his
note  to me, was describing the heroic struggles of the people of Bolivia.
Suppose  one of these Bolivians were to stumble on to the list and ask how
all of this would be>useful in the struggles at home.


---I would say that for most people involved in real life struggles as
organizers, the whole way diaologue takes place among leftists has little
relevance to their lives because so much of it is influenced by the
tradition of attack that small left  sects (be they sects that meet in
real life or over the internet) engage in is foreign to the real life
experience of mass based alliance making that most activists are forced to
take up as a real life strategy to effect any political power.  Attacks in
unsolidaristic manners are, in my experience, far more alien to 'the
masses' than 'too intellectual sounding' material.

Steve




 Stephen Philion
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