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"Immediate import" as in if we don't democratically plan and fund wind farms, mass transit, etc., and if we can't build a mass movement to seize the resources to do so, we and the planet are fucked. So let's talk to Greens, BLMers, to everyone about the urgent need to hit the streets. On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Mark Lause via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > I have to say that I favored the resolution, but I placed little importance > on it. I would have rather seen a serious set of resolutions passed and > acted upon to actually organize a membership-based party. Talk is always > cheap. My concern is to see action in terms of real organizing, coupled > to activism that implicitly raises issues of power. In a very immediate > sense, I would like to see membership-based Green parties throw themselves > into something like Black Lives Matter . . . which, other than an idea, > seems to be sputtering in most places, despite the continued police > shootings, etc. > > That said, I am astonished at how anyone is reading the passing of an > anticapitalist plank as counterposting national wind farms to "mass > immediate transition to mass transit . . . nationwide free, universal, > worker/community controlled childcare,healthcare, eldercare." I'm also a > bit baffled what it means to consider these "questions of immediate > import." > > Do you mean of immediate import to those of us affected by their absence? > Or do you mean immediate import in the sense that you think we're about to > have a mass movement around these things? > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
