[lbo-talk] "how we might get from here to there"

[rayrena]

I dislike a lot of what you write here: how is it not
valuable to investigate ("theoretical discourse" ) social
formations? "Worker's capital," ugh. "Leftists who care"?
And the whole head-heart divide underlying your distinction
between workers and leftists. But I think your emphasis on
organization is important, as I see it as recognizing
workers' formation as they are, not as they should be. Too
many people see a lack of unionization, a lack of influence
on the state, and withdrawal from parliamentary politics as
a lack of organization. This, more than analysis paralysis,
makes soi-disant leftists irrelevant.


> The only way to "get from here to there" is to change the
> way we produce and share, to form worker's capital, and
> yet, the number of such worker's collectives with
> expressly political intent is small, and the number of
> leftists who even care or support these few is so tiny as
> be irrelevant. The real crisis that socialism must
> overcome is exactly this inaction. The most prominent
> voices on the left are content to be detached observers,
> commenting from a leftist position on world events,
> history and theory. If some of you would help promote
> worker's organization of production as an ideal, and
> actually promote organizations attempting this, perhaps
> you could actually make a difference outside. Instead, by
> focusing on analysis and theoretical discourse, the
> audience power you build (and squander) does more to
> increase the profits of google and amazon.com than fill
> the war chest of 
> any worker's movement.