[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1052, Issue 2

[brad bauerly]

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> Now it is quite possible that the organizers will fail to ignite such a
> movement, but the great majority of such efforts over the last two
> centuries have failed, but a few have succeeded ONLY because so many
> have been attempted. Surely, the most important political act of the
> last two centuries was the Paris Commune -- a miserable failure that
> never had a chance.
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> The "theory" needed here is not fiscal theory or electoral theory or ...
> but the theory of mass mobilizations and how they work and do not work,
> of what kind of demands they make and what kind they do not make.
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> Carrol
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> Because we could never chew gum and walk at the same time.