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> On Oct 13, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> I just did a search on lbo-talk archives f "we should"; the result was 8901
> hits!
>
> Who is _we_?
>
> The crippling element in all but a few lbo-talk posters was the assumption
> that _we_ existed! It is that assumption of an existent "we" that is the
> core defense of capitalist anarchy. (I say "anarchy" because of course Rosa
> L's prophecy of "socialism or barbarism" is no longer a prediction but
> history. We live in the barbarism she predicted, and the main _symptom_ of
> that barbarism (an insult to those originally labelled "barbarians") is
> ignorance of a fact that "we" needs to be created, and that to say "we
> should" is a surrender to the permanence of that barbarianism.
>
> The few at least partially outside that barbarian world know, that above
> all, our task is to CREATE A WE. The essence of crackpot realism is the
> premise that 'We" already exists and that it makes sense for the members of
> that (non-existent) We to carry on a 'civilized' discussion of what "we"
> should do. The few who attempt to resist that barbarianism know that our
> first task is to create a "WE" -- a 'we' that can then labor to generate a
> resistance to the barbarianism in which we now stumble along.
>
> Carrol
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