I'm sorry, but how in the hell is one supposed to dictate the emotional tenor of organizing/activism to a large group of people? Visions of Mao and Stalin's socialist realism pictures are coming into my head, of "happy" workers and peasants giddily carrying out the "brave new future" or some shit like that. Fuck it. The revolution is not a dinner party, even Mao understood that....
What are people supposed to do, celebrate with "carnivals", puppets and some crappy overly-spiced kind of tofu salad potluck every time the find out a worker is beat up, imprisoned, or killed by the capitalist state? That's bullshit. People will react emotionally however they want in a given situation, thank you. The revolution is not some P.C. thing that has to do with anyone and everyone's "feelings." In fact, if *someone's* "feelings" were NOT hurt, I'd have to wonder whether or not it was a revolution at all.
-- David
p.s. did anyone see Aaron McGruder on CSPAN the other day? I thought he could have been more succinct....