>Messsage du 27/11/2000 05:58
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>Objet : Intellectual Pissing Contests
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> Why do I again subject myself to this atmosphere after being offline a year?
i suspect this is in reference to my exchange with mr. heartfield. if so, i apologize. it was not as constructive as it could have been...
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> coalition is not necessarily a comfortable place. It's risky and dangerous.
> It's where feelings tend to be hurt. However, the crisis is where the
> change comes from!
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i'm curious, what do you mean by coalition here? i think i know but i should ask.
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> What to do? Think globally, act locally?
start, i think, with questioning all of the things you hold dear...
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> I'd like to see the political system in the United States restructured.
> Not just the electoral college, and ballot restrictions, but the House and
> Senate too. How about PR for a change?
there is an ad that i've seen on a lot of bus stops around the u.s. that reads "all empires must fall" with a picture of one of lenin's statue lying in a crumbling heap. it might take a long time, but i suspect that in the end, america (such as it is), certainly a specie of empire, is quite doomed, all efforts at radical restructuring of political institutions not withstanding. i'm no passivist, yet i understand how revolutionaries and the a revolution itself can be diminished by the shedding of blood. i attempt to address this contradiction by arguing that serious revolutionaries should develop a praxis that combines strategic efficiency with an absolute minimum loss of life.
that said, i'm always open to the possibility that there may be some revolutionary potential in arguing for these major transformations of political institutions 'cuz life is just that way. but it does not seem likely, especially as long as the struggle for such is not explicitely anti-capitalist and anti-white/anti-racialist. maybe it could evolve in that direction, one never knows. but my experience is that those who argue for these reforms tend to be uncomfortable with these kind of explicit political positions(at least in public) because they don't think most people will feel comfortable with that kind of talk. and they are right. but if you can't talk about the problem, how can you begin to solve it? you can't, of course--or at least you are not likely to. hence, america slowly slides into some kind of dissolution that no one can characterize yet. it, this dissolution, could either be the beginning of a new dark ages or present an opportunity for revolutionary change.
chris niles
the new abolitionist
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