[lbo-talk] occupying retail

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Oct 28 19:57:55 PDT 2011


No one of course is going to occupy Walmart or X or Y tomorrow. Any discussion of such an occupation is of two kinds:

a) Politically Serious: It begins with some consideration of what kind of social changes and what kind of political activity and change would have to occur before such an occupation becomes an actual proposal for action.

b) Politically Frivolous: It discusses such an occupation as though it were being planned for implementation without such changes having first occurred.

That limits very much the considrations that are relevant.

There are no local or national organizations at the present time that could or would plan or implement such an occupation. It could only be proposed under political conditions that do not at present exist. In picking up Michael's idea earlier today I was envisaging an exploratory conversation which moved back and forth between a consideration of the kind of process mass political groups go through in deciding on actions and an exploration of the political development which would have to o ccur for such an idea to be seriously debated within a political group.

Oh well. Perhaps mail lists are not the proper forum for such exploratons of the complex relationships between fundamental theory and political activity.

Carrol



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