William S. Lear wrote: > Anyway, we have RI -> DUI -> DA (Radical Intellectuals produce > Democratically Useful Information, which will/can lead to Democratic > Action). But my little model misses something, RI -> DTM -> DUI -> > DA, where DTM is the Democratic Transmission Mechanism. I'm curious, > being a not-yet-activist-intellectual, which DTMs do folks (activists > and people) find most (cost) effective? Radio? Magazines? Internet? > Direct contact and speaking engagements? It seems TV would be the > best, but for obvious reasons that's pretty hard. I have no such confidence in the role of "radical intellectuals" to bring about change *especially* when those RIs view the line of communication to the masses as one-way (as above). A preliminary step for activism might be for the RIs to *listen* to what working people have to say and to *participate* in their struggles without preaching to them or acting like know-it-alls. > how do we recruit more > "workers" to join the project? Perhaps it would be better to humbly join *their* progressive projects rather than to "recruit" them to your projects. Jerry
