>This is only half fair, Doug. Of course we need (a) a coherent vision of an
>alternative to the current order, (b) a plausible transitional program, (c) a
>powerful, articulkated, institutionalized movement based on our own political
>organizationto to move us from (b) to (a), and several other good things
>besides.
>
>However, most of all, just now, we need movement, some degree of some sort of
>organization that is doing something that might havea hope of attracting
>more people, and a something that might be caused some victories to inspire
>hope. Seattle provided movement, in this sense, if not the other stuff. It's
>a way sattion towards those desiderata, a sine qua non, in any case.
We need both, we need all of it, which is what I've been saying. Appeal to street cred as the ultimate arbiter of authenticity won't cut it. Policy wonks alone - even quasi-revolutionary ones - won't cut it either. I'm on the warpath against all dualisms!
Doug