[Fwd: Re: Canada's anti-corporate crusader]

[Carrol Cox]

I couldn't possibly say it better than Gordon does below. I
had drafted a reply, which included the sentence, " Actually the 
anarchists on the list should be able to fill in here as well 
as anyone," before I saw Gordon's post. His post makes mine
redundant.

I will only add that this question of Doug's reveals his 
major theoretical weakness. He demands that the contingent
be detailed in advance.

Carrol

Carrol Cox wrote:
> >If you want "catch" people just for that magic 45 seconds in the voting
> >booth, fine. If you want to create a bureaucratic social democratic
> >or pseudo leninist party, in which the masses passively support leaders
> >who will do good things for them, fine. If you want a mass
> >movement, then .......

Doug Henwood:
> ...then what?

-- then you must approach people on a different basis, one
of participation rather than spectacle.  True, the spectacle
could give them ideas, but unless the ideas touch the ground
they'll remain soap opera.

I've gotten the impression, though, that there's a growing
conviction amidst the folk that anything seen on television
is fake in some way -- hence the growth of talk radio, 
Internet ranting, and odd cults of belief like UFOlogy.

Gordon