[WS:] If you need to paraphrase Old Left saints, try Gramsci instead - he seems to have a better grasp of Western realities.
In any case "We have to build a well-organized political power to usher the economic changes"
sounds more like "we have to build a powerful rocket to fly to the Moon."
We know that. The real question is "how exactly?"
Wojtek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>
>> On Nov 16, 2011, at 8:41 AM, c b wrote:
>>
>>> This is , in a way, the theoretical reason that the shift to Wall
>>> Street from Washington as a symbolic demonstration location is
>>> revolutionary in the protest form for Americans.
>>
>> Man, you hit the nail on the head there, Charles. Yes.
>
> Understanding where the problem lies is, of course, important. The
> solution though is not the *economic* struggle, but the *political*
> struggle. To closely paraphrase Lenin: the political struggle is the
> economic struggle, but concentrated. We have to build a
> well-organized political power to usher the economic changes that have
> to be put in place. That passes through taking over the government,
> rehabbing it or replacing it altogether (if there's nothing in it we
> can use as recycled material), because we are going to need that kind
> of organized force to dislodge vested interests entrenched in the
> economy and we need the process to shape ourselves up. I say this
> because some people (not you, guys) make it seem as if all it is
> needed is some financial or economic scheme (gold standard is
> something I hear a lot) that, somehow, can be introduced (while
> eschewing potentially bureacratic political power) to straighten
> things out. I think you recognize what I'm referring to. And, of
> course, I am not talking about immediate goals -- I'm discussing
> propaganda here, because it's in these conditions that propaganda goes
> a long way.
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