Julio Huato writes: "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."
I think Andre Gorz answered this long ago. I can't get my head around all the relevant parameters now, but I don't think this statement should be left unchallenged. Real struggle has always been about abstractions. Never about so-called "concrete needs." Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
