This morning the guy who started mowing his lawn at 6:30 was the enemy.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Aside from the issue of anti-semitism or of rhetoric, it is, I think, > inocrrect to speak of our "main enemy." That is pretty irrelevant to > political practice, or worse than irrelevant, because it shifts opinion > away from our "main problem," which is activating the many people who > more or less agree with us (us = radical leftists) but remain passive. > > We have innumerable 'enemies,' but it is political practice, not > abstract analysis that determines which 'enemy,' undeer given > circumstances is the "main enemy." The main enemy in a given case, for > example, might be the manager of a public hall who refused us (some > local group) use of the hall! Abstractly, of course, not just the main > enemy but the only enemy is capitalism as a system. But we never fight > capitalism as a system; we fight a particular incarnation of it at a > given time and location. > > I cannot off hand think of a singlke discussion of "the main enemy" that > was not in fact a theoretical and practical diversion from reality. > > 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
