Gordon:
> >I think to some extent we're stuck with the necessity of
> >effecting a cultural change as well as changes in institutions
> >and relations if we want to emerge from capitalism. Anarchists
> >could not force this change on other people; they would have
> >to hope that, presented with a choice, other people would
> >decide to live in and support freedom. Hence the necessity
> >of revolutionizing not through elections, coups or civil wars
> >but through actually doing things differently beginning on a
> >local level.
> >
> >If people won't do this, then there's not much use imposing
> >righteous institutions on them from above. They won't stick.
Dddddd0814 at aol.com:
> Ahh, now we seem to have arrived at Maoism. The change will be cultural. If
> lifestyle changes are not to be forced on people, then the prevailing
> hegemony will ensure that things stay the same. The existing economic order
> can stay put, and people will "change their minds" independently. Humans are
> "inherently good." Just focus on your mantra.
I've proposed quite a different praxis from whatever it is that's being parodied here. But if you didn't read it before, there's probably not much use in my repeating it now. (And I've used up my three shots today anyway.)
-- Gordon