As Marx wrote in his September 1843 letter to Ruge... > > > "Hence, nothing prevents us from making criticism of politics, > participation in politics, and therefore *real *struggles, the starting > point of our criticism, and from identifying our criticism with them. In > that case we do not confront the world in a doctrinaire way with a new > principle: Here is the truth, kneel down before it! We develop new > principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say > to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the > true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really > fighting for, and consciousness is something that it *has to *acquire, > even if it does not want to."
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected] > wrote: > > Corey Robin: it's not just a victory over the Establishment; it's an > opportunity to school the Left. > > > https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/michigan-primary-bernie-sanders-nomination/ > > [...] > > The Left loves social movements. I do, too. But social movements don’t > happen in a political vacuum; they’re not immune to the mood and medium of > electoral politics. There’s nothing quite like a presidential campaign for > taking pots and kettles long simmering on the Left’s back burner and > bringing them to a furious boil > <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/bernie-sanders-primary-socialists-third-party/> > . > > That means two things. First, we do have to remain focused on primaries > and delegate counts. It’s only so long as there is a viable campaign that > we have the opportunity for a conversation on such a massive scale. There’s > a set of leftists who think the revolution will come from small > conversations in socialist study groups and reading circles, that the way > to radicalize is by simply “talking to people” — which really means talking > at people — in the absence of some galvanizing question that brings those > people to the table. > > Anyone who’s selling you that line is either out of touch or trying to > sign you up for their classes. They want to make you believe you can just > get people to think and argue and reflect in a vacuum, without some real > taste of power in the here and now. That’s not how it works. > > [...] > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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