[lbo-talk] New School occupation

[Carrol Cox]

Tangential observation. The Chinese used slogans for this purpose.
Americans, who think of slogans merely as something to shout, have a hard
time with slogans used in the Chinese Revolution, many of which seem
impossibly torturous -- not shoutable. They should be read the way in which
one reads section headings in a chapter  in a textbook.

Carrol

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Great point! Thank you.

Joanna

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shag: But of course, this is how people learn in a movement.

It is hard to over-emphasize this. So many of the political
misunderstandings of how movements operate stems from not seeing Movements
as educational 'institutions,' a function which (up to a point) is far more
important than whatever effect they have on state behavior. Demands MUST BE
formulated with this in mind -- that the main purpose of the "demands" is to
trigger educational discussion and thought WITHIN the movement  itself. And
this, incidentally, is perhaps the main way in which a left political
movement may prefigure the society it aims at.

Carrol

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