exceeds the combined collected works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Kim Il Song and Kim Il Jong. We should have by now
theory and planning, policy and thought to beat the bourgeoisie. No worry that elaborating a coalition-front--action-movement-program, a little proposed _practice_ around here will fall into
activistism anymore.
Political practice one o one: ' What is a coalition ? What is a front ? What is a movement ? What is a program ? What is propaganda ? What is practice ? What is political consciousness ? What is class consciousness ? What is workigg class consciousness ? What is socialist consciousness ? What is ruling class consciousness ? What are the ruling ideas of our age ? What is theory ? What is practice ? What is the relationship between theory and practice ?
What ideas unite the working class ? What ideas divide the working class ? What ideas unite the ruling class ? What ideas divide the ruling class ?
Why do socialists focus on mass ideas ?
There may be a misconception that materialism
holds that individual people's activity and practice
is not determined by their consciousness, thinking or ideas; that this is philosophical idealist error . That's
not true. The materialist principle is that "infrastructure" and material practice ultimately determine social and consciousness structure. It determines changes
in "grammar"
not individual speaking events, to make an analogy
to linguistics,
structural linguistics.
So, of course in order to get masses to move we have to figure out how to influence their thinking their ideas, their beliefs, their hopes, their dreams .
Who said, "without revolutionary theory , there can
be no revolutionary movement " ? And was s/he correct ? How didh'she prove they know what they were talking about ? "Movement " as in what Perfect Barry ain't got.
Who said Marxism is not a dogma , but a guide to action ? Who said the test of theory is practice ? Who said philosophers have interpreted the world in a number of ways, but the thing is to change it ? "Interpretation" as in theory, talk, sitting around philosophizing, and writing books. "Change it" through action , activity, practice , through a movement. Only a mass movement can change the whole world. What ideas will move masses to move the world ?
Mases will only move if inspired, they will only change things with change they can believe in.
Pessimisim of the intellect and optimism of the will might be better said in America, Materialism of the intellect, Idealism of the will.
What religion has over our atheism is optimism, a can-do spirit, the power of positive thinking. Thus, religion gets people to _do_ things. It inspires action. What socialist theorists need from religion is that optimism that we can change things. that "yes we can spirit".
In this regard, Pretty Boy's slogans "Yes we can change things for the better" is quite correct.
The struggle continues; victory is certain.
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