Re: Idea of Rapid Withdrawal from Iraq Fast Receding

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/1/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/1/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We are not looking for a theme here.  The question is the way people
> > work with one another and elaborate an enduring but ever-changing
> > world view, building institutions to go with it.
>
> ways of working together and institutions are very important stuff,
> but it's also good to have the ever-changing world view has some
> tendency to converge to some sort of unity.

The Marxist tradition once had a world view, a world view (more
specifically a philosophy of history) of inevitable dialectical
progress, from pre-capitalism, to capitalism, to socialism, the world
view that the Marxist tradition borrowed in part from Christianity and
in part from liberalism.  It no longer does, though it remains useful
as it supplies a theoretical framework and analytical tools.  A school
of thought can be built around a theoretical framework and analytical
tools, but a social movement cannot be.  A social movement, especially
one with an ambition to present an alternative to capitalist
modernity, needs a world view, a world view that inspires people to
have faith in the work they must do in the face of adversity.
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Yoshie
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