> What's there to discuss? You should belong to a revolutionary Marxist
> organization. They may all be marginal at present, but they
> wholeheartedly share your perspective that no matter how bleak the
> period, the main task is to accumulate "cadre" in preparation for the
> next explosion of class struggle.
That's not Carrol's position. He's critiquing the groupuscules who think revolution consists of assembling the masses, like they're some mindless raw material, but he's also critiquing the liberal reformists of Empire, who are satisfied with assembling voters as if they're some mindless electoral material. The point is to engage those masses -- the hard, messy work of teaching, agitating, educating, organizing.
-- DRR