(p)opulism

[Justin Schwartz]

Carrol is right, or at least, I'd say it takes a vocabulary, anyway, and a 
set of coherent messages. But that doesn't address the question, and I know 
Carrol didn't say it did, of what the vocabulary should be, or the short 
list of messages either. The language of classical Marxism doesn't seem to 
be on the table, though. The ideas are something else. If they are true, to 
the extent that they are true, they are on the table. But maybe we need a 
new way to express those truths, or an old but plain one. --jks


>
>Then the question is not to persuade them to
>general truths (like capitalists or bad etc) but
>how to communicate the ideas in terms of
>which they can maintain the momentary but
>passing solidarity generated "spontaneously."
>And for that purpose the same ideas and words
>must be used all over. In other words, lasting
>solidarity requires a jargon.
>
>Carrol
>
>

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