[lbo-talk] Just Do Something!

[Joseph Wanzala]

This should be stating the obvious, but leadership is an elected position 
within democratic governance structures  - however most significant leaders 
of social movements historically - the list is long and does not need 
reciting, have not (necessarily) been elected.


>From: "Dennis Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Just Do Something!
>Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 13:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Historian Matthew Lasar's review of Doug, Liza's and Michael's piece.
> > From: lasarm at transbay.net
> >
> > Intellectuals can't provide all the
> > leadership. But they must provide a significant part of it.
>
>Nope. Leadership is an elected position: it's what the members vote for.
>Our job, which noone else can do, because they don't have access to the
>archives, libraries, texts, data, etc. is to *think*. Educate. Research.
>Teach. Map the world-system. And then make that research available to the
>whole planet.
>
>-- DRR
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