On Nov 21, 2009, at 3:24 PM, brad bauerly wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Carrol
>>
>>
> Because we could never chew gum and walk at the same time.
But I suppose you have to be sitting down to pontificate like this.
Doug