"nodes in a common struggle"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 27 07:38:46 PST 2001


Carrol Cox wrote:


>This kind of kickback is about 5000 years old -- as old as class society
>-- but I fail to see its political relevance. If anything it may
>discourage political struggle, since it is a way to vent irritation in a
>purely personal way. The IWW, correctly, condemned such merely
>individualistic expressions or acts of sabotage.

But wouldn't it be nice to connect all those individual acts of resistance and politicize them? And wouldn't it be nice if they were seen as expressions of a more serious, if unformed, rebellious instinct instead of being disparaged with a big yawn?

Doug



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