Maybe no one here has a garden, but I tried to use that a metaphor.
When you plant something, you need to put it in some soil. That soil needs to be nourished.
Nutrients. Soil. Seed. ==> Plant
Rhetoric. Historical Conditions. Political Practice. ==> Socialist Society
Get it?
Nutrients = Rhetoric Soil = Historical Conditions Seed = Political Practice
All very different things. You need all of them to grow that plant. IN this case, the plant is a socialist society. But, before you get to that society, you need soil, nutrients, seed. And you need us to till the soil, cultivate it, water, fertilize, mulch, etc.
The nutrients -- a public rhetoric that advances leftist issues-- is NOT a socialist society. It is not the seed (political practice).
*sigh*
it's kinda sad that this stuff is so foreign to people.
What is the rhetoric of a Cynthia McKinney that will inspire people? What story about why you should vote for her does she tell others? How does she understand her purpose? Etc. Is it the same old same old? Cause if it is, it ain't workin'!
k
"We live under the Confederacy. We're a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks."
--Bruce Sterling