>>> Tom Condit wrote:
Majorities are generally formed *around active minorities.* To passively
wait until you have 51% and *then* act is a good formula for never getting
that 51%.>>>
This seems an interesting idea.
>>>
At the same time, you have to remember that the left -- all of it, all
tendencies -- has more than its share of people who have a lifelong ambition
of always being outcasts. They acquired it as a byproduct of teenage
romantic self-pity and have never shaken it.>>>
I was thinking about something similar to this. It seems likely that movements who are trying to change society will have a higher than average proportion of people who are in some way victimized , outcast and alienated by the system. We have more stress to assuage collectively to self-organize.
Charles Brown