I think that for all kinds of reasons, we actually have to be _in_ the
communities we're trying to change. For some of us, this may mean
unions, or campaings for/against various things (workfare, police
brutality, a living wage) run by the people who are effected most by
them. Ultimately, socialism will be built by people responding to their
immediate circumstances and finding that it requires a change in the
relations of power. For those of us at universities, that can mean
student/faculty/worker control of the school. It starts with demanding
things like curriculum reform, dignity for workers, the school helping
the surrounding community instead of colonizing it. Ultimately people
realize the school is not a democracy and that it could be. Similar
things could be said about myriad other movements and community
organizations in different ways. We have to struggle with people and
learn this realization with them, because it's a different kind of
realization for different kinds of communities. Just braodcasting to
"the people" over television with our idea of the correct program is,
ultimately, just politics as usual with a left face.
KARL: You omit the a most decisive factor from you anlaysis:
politics. You can be deeply involves in what you like but you if you
lack marxist politics you will not suuceed in moving things in the
right dierection.
Yours etc.,
Karl
