I said I was going to quit posting this thread, but I had another analogy to try on you, Stan. (be tolerant, please.) You wrote: ""Forgive me, but this is nonsense. This reminds me of the diversion of the struggle for black liberation in my own country during the Cold War, when racism was redefined as some kind of personal pathology, and the struggle was de-linked from the anti-colonial struggle. Changing individual behavior? " In Marxist thought there is identified this quality called "class consciousness". An *individual* has it, or acquires it, or is identified as not possessing it. It is my understanding that Marx and Lenin both described processes by which one acquires "class consciousness." And it is my understanding that this results in an individual changing her/his behavior. The Reds on the list have accused me of avoiding class consciousness, so I assume they believe it exists. Is it so hard to conceive of something similar called "environmental consciousness?" Could you accept that this might possibly change individual behavior ... as an individual reacts to the capitalism within which s/he is immersed? That's what I'm calling for, and what I believe possible. If I confused anyone by labeling that change as merely "a change in attitude", Mea Culpa. thanks for considering it for the 10 seconds it took you to read it, anyway. tom PS Yeah, I know. I am about to be inundated with 100 comments of how "class consciousness" is something altogether different and I haven't proven the existence of "environmental consciousness" as a corollary, and I just don't get it and I'm a fuckin' redbaiter for even bringing it up in this context. Flame away, y'all. _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
