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Review ondelette's post regarding the Stages of Revolution.
Look around you at the communities you are part of and have been an organizer within. Yes, it's hard. No, it's not impossible. All over the Bay Area there are all kinds of Resistance and Revolutionary cells, all kinds of Action Committees for this and that good cause. It's chock a block.
What you want to know is not how "I" would organize what's already there. You want to know what would be successful in forcing positive change, revolution if you want to call it that, on a resisting and often pig ignorant Public that doesn't care about most of the shit we fret and fume over all the time.
And I'm telling you nothing would accomplish it at this point. Not going to have a Revolution. It's not going to happen. Not NOW.
What can happen and is happening is a growing trend toward local/regional autonomy. Not independence yet. But definitely autonomous action.
That's no substitute for the change that needs to happen, but it's a start.
For it to get much farther, though, there needs to be a common ideology, and we're so far from that it's laughable.
Ondelette asks whether the blogosphere is analogous to the "leafletting" stage of Revolution. Seems self-evident, but there is no common ideology on the "left" -- an actual resistance to "ideology" in fact -- and so it's usually a lot of voices with no common message.
And as for your insults, Mister, you can cram it up your ass. ;-)
Have a nice day. At least you aren't buried in fog.
