[lbo-talk] The role of social media in the Egyptian uprising
Carrol Cox
cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Feb 10 17:30:19 PST 2011
This year, for the first time since SDS dissolved, there is an actual
radical group on the ISU campus. I was talking to the initiator of it on
Sunday (he calls himself a "socialist anarchist," but that's not important).
He has returned to school to get a second bachelors degree. I believe his
first degree was in musical technology or something like that; now he wants
to teach and is back to get a teaching certificate with a major in
sociology. He defined the purpose of the group to develop people who would
when they went to work in various places try to form similar groups. Now
THAT is thinking like a radical. They meet once a week at a local coffee
shop. That is radical, going back to the days of neighborhood bars. And they
all know already that their first task is to organize themselves! Liberals
can't get that through their heads. They immediately strike out to "do
something quick," to reach out to more people before they exist themselves
as a collective.
I have great hopes for this groups, especially as it's a reasonable premise
that what is happening in one place is probably happening in others. At some
point if such groups are coming into existence, they will began to form
links (not between people but between groups.)
Carrol
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