----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
If one operates from social analysis ("data"_ will lead you to a deeper understanding of what 'should' be or what is 'needed' to 'improve' conditions; but there is no
necessary connection whatever between the 'goals' so selected and the slogans that will attract people to the fight -- that will not only attract them but will energize their participation. And it seems at present there is only _one_ 'demand' that will fulfill that purpose: Resist the Corporate Attack on Democracy. We can perhaps build a movement around that, and the energy unleashed within such a movement is the desire to know and to understand, AND THEN, but only then, can we begin to 'get back to' the demands "worth fighting for." In an ideal world the "demands needed" would coincide with the "demands worth fighting for," but if it were an ideal world we would not be in the business of trying to destroy it.
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Agreed.
Joanna