> But for the emergence of a new view of the world, no matter how
> radical, "all" you need is a few individuals changing their minds...
> and making a convincing case! In the emergence of a political force
> capable of transforming for good the U.S. (the richest, most powerful,
> most dangerous, most wasteful, most degrading in human history), you
> need very large masses of people in motion. You need a lot of minds
> (and behaviors, habits, attitudes, etc., individual and collective)
> changed.
What are the "micro-foundations" of this account of what's required to generate such a "political force"? As you said over on pen-l:
> I believe that demanding that people
> stipulate clearly the "micro-foundations" underlying specific
> aggregate behaviors is progress in social science -- methodologically
> speaking. (Of course, one must think of "progress" as a dialectical
> process.)
Ted