[lbo-talk] counting to 200 -- how about 500

[Michael Perelman]

People organize their thoughts by stories.  Anecdotes about criminality and other 
abuses helped to form those stories.  The people who do theory CAN, but not 
necessarily do help to give those stories coherence.  Yet Carroll is correct 
emphasized the importance of people on the ground doing person-to-person organizing, 
even Karl Marx never did that kind of organizing that Carroll is emphasizing.

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:08:43AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> > Which brings me back to my point that people are changed (a) by
> > conditions which cause them to look for something to change to and (b)
> > personal conversation, not books or radio broadcasts or journals. That
> > is why an organizer/agitator talks only to people who already _on some
> > one point_, agree with him/her. That one point can be something like
> > individual criminality.
> 

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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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