[lbo-talk] perceptions

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 17:22:45 PDT 2010


I don't understand this.....

Carrol Cox wrote:


> Opinons do not affect action.

Here are some opinions:


> In my pre-political days this use to vaguely bother me on occasion. I
> would read an article in a liberal journal about some public issue, some
> injustice, some desperate need not being met by government

...and then here is some action. :


> to the point where I,
> casually to begin with, started attending the weekly meetings of a small
> civil-rights group

Maybe the opinions weren't sufficient to cause the action. But if you had read the liberal magazines and your opinion had been "what a load of communist nonsense," you probably wouldn't have gone to the meeting.

So how can "opinions not affect action"?

SA



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