On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a rule, a mass of people divided under the pressures of day-to-day
> capitalist life won't struggle for or against abstractions.  People struggle
> to meet concrete needs, as they perceive them in the given context.  This is
> the paradox: Socialists are not the dog, but the tail.  It is when they
> understand this well that they become an effective leading force.  It is
> only then that the tail gets to wag the dog -- and under exceptional (yet
> decisive) circumstances.

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But we were talking about *cats*. Not dogs; not sheep.

E.
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