[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO

[Miles Jackson]

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