Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-17 Thread mp
On 17/01/2021 15:03, Dmytri Kleiner wrote: > I think the recent success of MAS in Boliva is instructive here. MAS, > from what I understand, is not the movement, but rather it is referred > to as "the instrument" of the movement. Even short of a Coup like the > one against Morales, participation

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-17 Thread John Young
Have the Honduran migrants issued a manifesto? Few flags, posters, banners, orators in the highway pics. Impressively orderly unlike the DC batshitters. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering

Re: offlist Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-17 Thread Dmytri Kleiner
On 2021-01-16 21:33, Brian Holmes wrote: I keep writing in this thread because it would be just too absurd to abandon the theorization of the present for some banal Stalinist ideas of the 1950s - as though the Soviet invasion of Hungary never happened, whew, what nonsense. You are a mcarthyist

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-17 Thread Dmytri Kleiner
On 2021-01-16 20:01, Vincent Gaulin wrote: This kind of pro-institutionalism parses out the difference between a "good state" and a "bad state" in a way that anarcho-politics' anti-statism, overvaluing of protest, and wholesale scepticism of hierarchy never will. And yet remains dialogically r

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-17 Thread Allanmini2
hello, What a strange trip this has been... since most people in this discussion are not from China (or live there) this pedantic discussion about the pros and cons of communist party strategies of the Chinese government does not significantly address the presumed focus of this discussion. Far

Art for UBI manifesto

2021-01-17 Thread Emanuele Braga
hi to all Last year there had been some meetings and assemblies in order to co-write this manifesto in international networks within the art communities and collectives and activists. i hope that could be interesting for this list... about possible political strategies to face this mess. today the