[lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 2/12/07, wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
> I definitely agree with Chuck on this one.  We need more of the fail,
> but fail better school of folks like Luxemburg, rather than an
> organizational Platonism.  I rather like her quote in response to
> Lenin.  "Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary
> movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the
> cleverest Central Committee."

Many corporate leaders agree:

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite
simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of
failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be
discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and
make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you
will find success."
-- IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
<http://www.ericsink.com/bos/Make_More_Mistakes.html>

Certain leftists apparently even specialize in it!


> On the other hand, I do wish that young
> activists would read more theoretical material.  Not to get them to
> come up with the "correct" solution, but so perhaps they can start
> asking more interesting questions about those 'messy dynamic' actions
> and challenging their own assumptions.

And you can definitely meet people looking to bring these ideas into fruition.

Tayssir