[lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky andPalestine: Asset or Liability?

[Joseph Catron]

As Carrol is on a birthday boycott of my posts, I'll simply observe, for the
benefit of everyone else, that he's engaging in the exact ahistorical
silliness on which I speculated in my 3:45 am reply.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

Really, at this point it does not _matter_ whether a given action
> "contributes" to the achievement of some goal; it _only_ counts that it
> gives the activists themselves seomething to do and to talk about doing.
> It would even be useful if some people who are doubtful about the action
> would join it anyhow, help organize and recruit for it, and in the
> conversations around it argue about it and suggest other possibilities
> -- but still join in building it. This is how movements develop -- out
> of thousands of actions that misfire but gradually create the cadre and
> the thought that at some point explodes.
>

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