[lbo-talk] Pre-Primer on Organizing

[Carrol Cox]

Organizing has its principles (not theory or science but general
principles from practice over time), and those principles are NOT the
principles of writing legislatoin or conducting a unviersity seminar or
tor teaching Econ 101. They often overlap or make use of principles from
such activities, but they are never (except when organizing is done by
rank amatteurs) are subordinate to or determined by material from such
realms. A few of them.

For example: Education occurs _within_ a movement. A movement consists
of people in movement, engaged in some collective action or (sometimes)
related series of actions. It is only as those participating in those
actions carry on lengthy conversations with each other that education
occurs. So the first principle is GET SOME PEOPLE TOGETHER. To do that
it is necessary to ignore the naivete of wankish onlookers who want the
education to occur BEFORE ther eis anyone to educate.

Carrol