Jim Devine wrote: > > In any event, one person's angry response, no matter how noble, is > absolutely nothing compared to a mass movement against racism and the > like. Perhaps Zidane's response will help to evoke a mass movement or > to encourage the already-existing one?
I've given up trying to theorize how mass movements come about; they seem to me always in the past to have been unpredictable in advance. But when the conditions are such as to make a mass movement possible, such individual acts, planned or unplanned (Rosa Parks was the latter), always seem to be involved. And since one can't recognize the conditions until after the fact, it seems desirable that such individual acts (as well as local organizing etc) need to occur fairly regularly. Most will be wasted, but one never knows in advance _which_ ones won't be wasted. Carrol
