[lbo-talk] Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jun 16 18:56:26 PDT 2007


Mike Ballard wrote:
>
> A [genuine] question: what is the basis of solidarity? Surely it is
> more than back-scratching?
>
> --ravi
> The felt notion that "an injury to one is an injury to all." Acting on that
> notion as a matter of class interest is the basis of human solidarity, IMO.

You are probably putting the cart before the horse. Recognizing that notion is a derivative of class solidarity not a source of it. The reality must come first -- only then the does the slogan make sense. If you take the slogan literally, an injury to Adolph Hitler is an injury to all of us.

Carrol



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