Anders wrote (in part):
>
>Our side could use some more dreamers. I can't tell you how many political
>actions I've been involved with where the lefties involved will Talk the
>Big Talk (Revolution, etc.) while fighting for a couple of lousy crumbs.
>Almost nobody is gutsy enough to say, "we want real power in 10 years"--not
>Ruling the World real power but running CA's state government or turning
>the temp industry inside-out--let alone to actually plan for it. That
>takes people who are willing to dream, let alone to do the kind of
>theorizing that makes dreams vivid. Unfortunately, most of the radicals I
>know who think that way are on the Right...
>
we have spoken about this in other topics. one thing that irritates me about
the left (i speak of OZ) is their attitude to public schooling. while they are
all committed leftists planning the long haul...they feel justified in taking
their children out of the run-down state education system and putting them into
the salubrious private school education that costs a lot in terms of fees which
they can afford to pay being uni. academics and lawyers and etc and etc.
they justify it by saying their kids are more important than a principle.
i retort...nothing is more important than a principle (a principle defines
itself). either they believe in being in control of a vibrant public sector
(okay - it is no revolution, and is only palliative, and is probably a strategy
which prolongs capitalism, but it is now and it is our lives) or they don't.
their actions always lead me to think they would be the first people i would
"shoot come the revolution".
so i agree....before we get there there is so much to do - in the community, on
the land, getting little things sorted out and in control. come the revolution,
these bastards and their bastard kids (all with big educations) will probably
take over and be as fucked as the incumbents.
take control now....in little ways....that is my approach and maybe, some time
down the road, the revolution might come and we will have some consistent
practices already in place.
kind regards
bill
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