A mixed pet-aphor: the tail that wags the dog herds the cats...
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As a rule, a mass of people divided under the pressures of day-to-day > > capitalist life won't struggle for or against abstractions. People > struggle > > to meet concrete needs, as they perceive them in the given context. > This is > > the paradox: Socialists are not the dog, but the tail. It is when they > > understand this well that they become an effective leading force. It is > > only then that the tail gets to wag the dog -- and under exceptional (yet > > decisive) circumstances. > > ================= > > But we were talking about *cats*. Not dogs; not sheep. > > E. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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