[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO

[Miles Jackson]

Julio Huato wrote:
>
> How can we build a global community of free people based on solidarity
> and cooperation -- a pretty deliberate social product if ever existed
> any -- without changing our minds to start with, without getting to
> believe that such a social arrangement is possible and necessary?
>   
Specific historical example: desegregation in the South.  This social 
change did not occur because activists changed white Southerners' minds; 
the vast majority of white Southerners were adamantly opposed to 
desegregation in the 1950s.  Rather, civil rights activism helped to 
institute desegregation laws, and eventually white Southerners changed 
their minds to adjust to the new social reality.  The crucial step was 
political activism that led to institutional change; the change in 
public consciousness came later. 

I think the creation of a global community based on solidarity and 
cooperation will occur, if it does, in the same way.  "Changing minds" 
will be the last step in the process.

Miles