Personal versus Political (was Re: adjunct pay whine)

[Gordon Fitch]

Yoshie Furuhashi:
> ...
> This conflict of the personal and the political is *not at all*
> unique to academia; it appears to me to be the *single most difficult
> obstacle to overcome* in any sort of political organizing (from the
> most mundane to the most revolutionary).
> ...

I'm tempted to annoy everyone here with some lifestyle anarchism,
but instead I'll just suggest that this very difficult, very
real problem may be exactly the place to press (hammer?)
hardest for an answer, or at least an analysis.  Why don't
our ends produce our means?