On 12/12/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We can continue to organize around whatever local or natinal issues temporarily trigger active public response. Some will flourish for awhile and die. Others will be flat from the beginning. Under the right conditions (Gould's "punctuated equilibrium" is the right metaphor) those ongoing activities will flow into something bigger. And if they don't. They don't. I had a great uncle who organized sheepherders for the IWW in Montana early in the century. Nothing much came of it. When I visited with him for a couple days back in 1947 he wasn't weeping about it. Neither should we.
At least one thing came out of it, and that's a good story. Good stories to tell and pass on to young people are what we need. Behind a world view there ought to be a popular tradition. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
