Carrol, please elaborate on your sentence: "Remember, mass movements need a > > negative at their center."
Gene On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > > > Michael Perelman wrote: >> >> I thought that this was important. I wonder why it has not elicited any > > That there is and has been strong public support for climate control > and other ecological issues is, I'm afraid, also evidence that these > issues cannot, themselves, be the basis of any mass movement. That > support is, as Gar says, weak tea. It is evidence that, if a strong mass > movement of the left should arise around other issues (a Movement of > Movement), such a left _would_ incorporate ecological demands, and those > wouldin turn strengthen such a left. > > But the abstract future of the earth as a habitable planet simply is not > the sort of thing mass mvements are built of. > > It is nearly impossible to formulate the demands abut which such > amovement could organize itself. Remember, mass movements need a > negative at their center. > > Carrol > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
