lbo-talk-digest V1 #7113

[joanna bujes]

At 01:28 AM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>joanna bujes wrote:
> >
> > At 02:42 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Yes, but that condition also tells us that capturing the main political
> > >institutions - government, the army, police, mass media etc.  - is a
> > >condition sine qua non of any successful movement.  Trying to cobble a
> > >revolution in somebody basement or a garage looks very amateurish abd
> > >cannot be taken seriously.
>
>I don't know who wrote this or what the context was, but it's a bit
>groutesque. Taken literally, it is plain ignorant, since no one has ever
>thought of trying such cobbling. Taken more or less metaphorically, it's
>a fairly good description of what Lenin, Castro, Mao, Ho, & a few others
>did. What is the point of this setting up of fantastic scenarios to
>treat with cheap scorn? Actually it also describes what Rosa Parks, and
>a few hundred others in the south did. They may not have set up utopia,
>but they sure as hell shook up things.

I didn't write that.

Joanna