Alterman and Rorty

Jim heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue May 26 12:26:37 PDT 1998


In message <199805261728.MAA56106 at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes
>no mass struggle (reformist or
>revolutionary or anything in between) has EVER been based on a
>majoritarian view.

What about black majority rule in South Africa, or the struggle for Irish independence from English landlordism, or against slavery in America, or for the people's charter, or for the Paris Commune.

I should have thought that every mass struggle was based on a majoritarian view. Minoritarianism is the problem, isn't it? -- Jim heartfield



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