Calling the Other Out

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu
Sat Feb 12 16:19:37 PST 2000


On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Do you really think the
> world is a schoolroom? You might have done better on that
> strike (even persuaded more people in the long run) had you spent
> less time persuading people who disagreed with you and more
> time mobilizing the sympathetic.

In other words, find the vanishingly few people who think exactly like you do, tell them exactly what they already want to hear, and ignore everyone else. I had no idea organizing a revolution was so simple!

-- Dennis



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