Dddddd0814 at aol.com:
> 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.
If one is not supposed to dictate the emotional tenor of organizing/activism to a large group of people, then you should be okay with tofu, carnivals and puppets as long as you get your chance to be wrathful and aggrieved. So what's your problem?
-- Gordon