Your extrapolations from the two paragraphs I pasted is absurd. Did you even read it all? There was nothing about tofu or street carnivals. These assumptions are your own; they were in no way implied in the text nor are they mentioned in the larger work from which I excerpted the passages.
Brian
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote:
> > >"In order to provide those benefits, any successful movement will need to
> > >provide its members considerably more pleasure than pain.
>
>
> 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....
>
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