> Something more than abstract angst. If you demand an abstraction, you'll
> receive an abstraction.
Okay, but when very unabstract things like university occupations, factory occupations, street rioting, strikes, etc. happen, much of the left largely ignores them or belittles them or, at best, immediately despairs that there aren't more of them. When I hear the word organization, I hear a lament, not an acknowledgment of opportunity. What I hear is, I wish there *already existed* an organization that could use this opening to institute a politics at the macro level. In other words, there is no possibility that politics is created in the course of action; politics has already happened and just has to be administered. What I like about Carrol's views on political change--despite the by turns evangelical and vanguardist character of them--is that they don't see politics as preexisting political action but as something created in the course of struggle. This is opposed to someone like, say, Harvey, who thinks that politics don't exist because they don't occur in forms he doesn't recognize and so can only offer cynical suggestions like nationalization, nationalism, social-democracy.