Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
> My goodness Mark you are not in the best of spirits these days. The seminar was too
> academic for my taste, not enough what is to be done thinking, but nonetheless quite
> useful. There is nothing pathetic in getting people to think about the issues any
>more
> than it is pathetic to read about them on some CrashList.
Under the heading of getting things done comes the identification
of what goals can be primery and what can most usefully be attached
to other goals. *It does not follow that the most important issues are
the issues that can stand by themselves.*
Ecology, by itself, can trigger a substantial core of agressive adherents.
That is *all* -- and you can prove 100 times to everyone's satisfaction
that the world will end in 50 years and you will not add one solitary
person to that core. Beyond that core people will become activated
by ecological issues *only after they have become politically activated.*
Almost anyone, once activated, once involved aggressively in politics
and entering into relations with others so involved, will *then* (and
ONLY then) also come to see what Mark and others see.
So the first step in doing anything about the ecological crises is
bringing a large contingent of that activist core to see that they
must (while maintaining their activities in that area) give their
primary attention to the creation of a mass left and working-
class movement. Then the real battle over ecology must be
fought out within that movement.
Most of the posts on this list are uninteresting because they only
repeat endlessly what anyone who is on this list already accepts.
Carrol
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