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Jon Olsen's avatar

John, this seems to be a hard-wired article of faith with you, one we have heard MANY times:

"The chief obstacle to building the massive egalitarian revolutionary movement is this: people think that hardly anybody else agrees with them in having their egalitarian revolutionary aspiration (i.e., to “remove the rich from power, etc.”). They therefore feel hopeless about the possibility of such a revolution" But the rest of us dimply are not convinced that this is THE main obstacle, although it is a valid point and needs to be part of the strategy. Hearing you state it for the upteenth time does not move the needle.

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Thomas's avatar

John, perhaps we can discuss this on December 2nd. But you make the tasks we have to perform, equivalent to having some kind of mass group therapy session.

Group therapy is wonderful. Everyone in the group finds out they have similar problems! It's a great thing...

But it's not "What is to be Done".

The masses of people are not all spontaneously get together and discover that they all feel they are equal.

Look at that text, by Lenin (not Chernyshevsky) to find out what is to be done.

It's not mass group therapy.

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