[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Jul 17 12:38:03 PDT 2008


Julio Huato wrote:
> If it's not the gradual accumulation of individual, molecular, small
> efforts of communication that leads to a phase change in the social
> consciousness, then what is it? Magic? That's what I get from Zinn's
> article.
The social psychological research on this is clear: attitudes and consciousness are the effects of (not the causes of!) changes in social conditions. To put it simply, we don't need to change people's minds to change society; we need to change society to change people's minds.

Miles



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