"Carrol Cox" <[email protected]> wrote: 

> Collective or collaborative discussion MUST be grounded on prior agreement 
> on and participation in action. ... 

Marx spent so much effort to develop an understanding of capitalist economy, 
shouldn't 
progressives(?) make an effort to make it more rigorous and understandable? 


>From that understanding, the best course of action can be advocated as a 
>political 
or cooperative undertaking. 

> ... If you start out with theory or analysis, the only kind of agreement that 
> can be 
> reached is sectarian. 

I don't see how any scientific or mathematical theory can be sectarian unless 
it 
doesn't correspond to reality or logic. 

> Coalitions are necessary and achievable because collective action does NOT 
> depend on shared theory or analysis. 

Coalitions require a common cause, but a good analysis makes things easier. 


-- 
Ron 

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