Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
> On 10/24/07, berber carpet bomb <berber.carpet.bomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/24/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey, Yoshie, do you ever join any Muslim forums and try to recruit
> > > the members to socialism? I'd be curious what reaction you've gotten
> > > if you have.
> >
> >
> > Dude. You never, ever actively recruit. You set a stellar example of being
> > an admirable intellect, etc. Or, you work in a small team, demonstrating
> > comradeship among the grouplet. People observe and want some o' that, then
> > they become socialists.
> >
> > bl, berber carpet bomb
>
> However I might agree (blah blah Rorty blah blah pragmatism blah
> blah), I still wonder what the answer is. If Yoshie has undertaken
> anything like that, it would be very interesting to hear about.
Recruit to WHAT? There is nothing to recruit to presently except a _very_ loosely organized anti-war effort with the haziest (& unspecified) principles of unity -- and the question only makes sense in respect to those who are already against the war, so the only relevant further step _at this time_ would be to urge them to become more active in pushing what they already believe.
Carrol
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