When there is no coherent left movement, left actions are first of all to raise the flag as it were, to call out that resistance exists. It _really_ does not matter what the _content_ of such acts is but only that they ARE, they exist, they call out to others to rally around the banner of resistance. Content, particular goals, methods of organization, tactics, etc. can be worked out later, but NONE of these can be usefully discussed until some kind of Movement exists within which they can be discussed.
Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of 123hop at comcast.net Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: [SPAM_ISU] :Re: [lbo-talk] Lenin would support Pussy Riot
Look, I don't think PR should go to jail, but I don't find anything radical or interesting in their activities. If someone's consciousness is raised by the sight of a young woman sticking frozen chickens up her vagina, that's fine. But I'm flummoxed by the whole thing.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Against the "radicals" defending Putin against Pussy Riot, I offer this bit from Lenin:
Why is there not a single political event in Germany that does not add to the authority and prestige of Social-Democracy? Because Social-Democracy is always found to be in advance of all others in furnishing the most revolutionary appraisal of every given event and in championing every protest against tyranny. It does not lull itself with arguments that the economic struggle brings the workers to realise that they have no political rights and that the concrete conditions unavoidably impel the working-class movement on to the path of revolution. It intervenes in every sphere and in every question of social and political life; in the matter of Wilhelm's refusal to endorse a bourgeois progressist as city mayor (our Economists have not yet managed to educate. the Germans to the understanding that such an act is, in fact, a compromise with liberalism!); in the matter of the law against "obscene" publications and pictures; in the matter of governmental influence on the election of professors, etc., etc. Everywhere the Social-Democrats are found in the forefront, rousing political discontent among all classes, rousing the sluggards, stimulating the laggards, and providing a wealth of material for the development of the political consciousness and the political activity of the proletariat. As a result, even the avowed enemies of socialism are filled with respect for this advanced political fighter...
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