> No, doing "some kind" of organizing is exactly the
> problem. I realize of course that your use of "some
> kind" is more a convenience of language that anything
> else, but in a literal sense, the problem with most
> activism is the sense of duty that one has to do
> something, "some kind" of something.
>
> Praxis is necessarily goal-oriented. A praxis which
> is a result of a sense of duty to do something is
> almost always worthless.
I didn't argue that people should just do *anything* without having some goals. Part of putting your ideas into practice involves having some goals and a plan on how to reach those goals. I'm not arguing for action for the sake of action any more than people here are arguing for theory for the sake of theory.
In my experience, radicals way too often wait to do action until everything is organized perfectly. This is just anal and foolish. Successful action may sometimes involve a perfect plan, but more often than not its a messy dynamic that involves trying things, seeing how they work, trying something else, evaluating the results and continuing on towards a goal or a process.
Chuck