wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
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> There are two other things that seem to be missing from current
> efforts as well.
Well, that's easy to fix. All you have to do is go out tomorrow with all your troops and start doing the things that we should be doing but are too stupid to think of.
> The first is I don't see any really effort to
> either create structures or cultivate the kind of subaltern
> structures that Gramsci discusses.
Jesus Christ! Thousands of people have been busting their butts doing just this for 30 years. Do you have the faintest idea of just how fucking hard this is to do? Well, that's easy to fix. All you have to do is go out tomorrow with all your troops and start doing the things that we should be doing but are too stupid to think of.
> This seems to because a sort of
> obsession with either celebrity or the if we tell the truth, they
Huh! What the hell are you talking about? And do you know how many cities have anti-war groups? And what percentage of those cities have you visited? You must have visited a lot of them to know that we are obsessed with celibrities, because I've certainly not noticed it anyplace.
> will come tactics (something that comes out of Chomsky... as much as
> I admire the man...) The second is that I don't sense that there is
> any attempt to link anti-war activity with a larger critique of our
> society (there is a fairly widespread opportunism on the part of
> activists....)'
Oh for pete's sake. WE DO NOT HAVE THE CADRE. WE ARE WORKING ON RECRUITING AND TRAINING THOSE CADRE, BUT THEY DON'T JUMP OUT OF THE BUSHES AT US. WE ARE DOING ALL THE THINGS YOU TALK ABOUT AND WE ARE EVEN HAVING SOME SUCCESS -- BUT IT IS HARD HARD HARD. This is what I mean when I say it's really stupid to criticize " the left" because no one who is doing it admits to being Part of the Left, they are merely like you sitting on the sidelines and kibiitzing, witnout even knowing what they are kibitzing.
PLEASE. Go out and do it. Show us how stupid we have been. Carrol