On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> No one on this list seems to have even faint notion of what is going on in the U.S. now, the spark being Wisconsin but local organizing has been gaining force for some time and needed only such a spark to rise to new levels. (To see one straw in the widn, google Illinois People's Action.") It is only popular action ata athe base that can set goals of struggle; as those goals get defiend, it is the responsibility of intellectuals not to lecture people on what they "'should' want but to theorize, raise to a level of theory, the actual struggles already going on.
This is the most dreamy stuff masquerading as hard-headedness. Which makes it charming in a way, if it weren't for the delivered from on high tone.