Albert
On 11/7/2011 6:34 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> In any case, though I forget& get sucked in too often, the only way I
> ordinarily answer a question is that the question is not asked but someone's
> statement implicitly is an answer to some unstated question.
>
> The main fact about all the Occupations is their fantastic and world-shaking
> success, which cannot be reversed or affected in any way by whether the
> Occupations continue or "fizzle out." They will of course fizzle out sooner
> or later, but that is really of no interest. What is of tremendous interest
> is figuring out how various left groups (from local Church Justice groups to
> National Organizations) can best expand on the great opening up of political
> possibility created by these Occupations.
>
> And even if we fail; even if capitalism is still to strong to be shaken at
> this time (as proved to be the case after Seattle), the greatness, the
> tremendous success, of these actions will not be affected, just as the
> General Strikes shag has described remained a great success for the left
> even though they were followed by the disasters of the '50s and '60s. This
> is even truer of the Paris Commune.
>
> Nitpicking particular real or imagined "errors" or mistakes of any of the
> Occupations remains a mere annoying distraction from the thinking we need to
> do.
>
> Carrol
>
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