> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> There are quite a scattering of people who dream of what they call
>> refoundation -- and these are people who unlike Dean have actual
>> experience
>> in mas politics, who aren't sitting on the sidelines. It's sort of
>> sad.
>
> Refoundation is an excellent summation of what Dean seems to be after:
> of the party, of discipline, of directed movement. Of course
> refoundation is fundamentally conservative. As are certain definitions
> of revolution. As Arendt pointed out a long time ago, the political
> use of the word revolution originally derives from astronomy, meaning
> a return to the beginning or return to a certain point. For the
> American and French revolutionaries, this meant a return to Rome; for
> Dean and others it means a return to the party and other forms from
> 100 years ago. Both moves are attempts to give form to an uncertain
> present and to seek security from and control over its striations.
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