The goal is always social revolution. That is finally becoming clearer to more and more citizens.
Well, at least a few bumping around the library. . . remember the public library? Capital, old Mr. Money Bags, the Borg, Satan. . .whatever you call it, is the principal contradiction. Has been for centuries. . . . We need a new language for the movement. . .one that can shake itself free from damned historical projects, while reclaiming the best in them. . . . The New Left, various Trotsky groups, Committees on Correspondence (old and new). . . so many names, so many movements Years ago at a socialist Scholars Conference in New York, I heard Stanley Aronowitz, Barry Commoner and James O'Connor (what a panel!), argue back and forth about whether to replace "socialism" with "democracy" in the left discourse. . . I don't know. I use both. . .but increasingly frame it our with democracy. . . .as a tactic. . .but also as a belief. I do know that the opposite of capitalism is not totalitarianism! It is some variant of justice, democracy, freedom, anarchism, communism, red ecologism. How do we call the next best movement? -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Catron <[email protected]> To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, May 2, 2010 3:33 pm Subject: Re: [Pen-l] plain text, please On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: Well, when you write this post, in the language of semantics yfour are encoding your thought. After all, your thoughts don't have a physical shape in a shade different from their background. So you 'translate' them into English I don't buy this part. While I've forgotten most of the semantic verbiage I learned in my cultural studies classes, it's apparent to me that most of my thoughts arise from the English language and could have no existence independent of it (except, perhaps, if I were equally fluent in some other language). The notion that I "translate" my thoughts about the purpose of life, the structure of the universe, etc. into English is absurd - the thoughts themselves ARE English, because that is the language through which I think abstractly. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _______________________________________________ en-l mailing list [email protected] ttps://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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