Lefty despair (pleasure and pain)

[Dddddd0814 at aol.com]

"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?"

I love you, too.

I'm not saying that people should be wrathful or aggrieved, anymore than I'm 
saying that carnivals, puppets, or tofu should or shouldn't be involved. My 
issue was not with tactics but with people dictating how celebratory or angry 
organizers or participants should be. Let people decide for themselves!

When Mao wrote revolution was not a dinner party, he was reacting to tame 
social democrats and bourgeois liberals who didn't understand a) the 
necessity of revolution for a fundamental change in the economic order and b) 
that these fundamental changes in society emerge as a result of definite 
class antagonisms which pit one segment of that society (the majority) 
against another, in order for the former to survive. 

Best,
David