Fwd: Said on Strategy

>From: KSamman@aol.com
>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:33:58 EST
>tell us first of all that
>only a mass movement employing tactics and strategy
>that maximise the popular element ever made any
>difference on the occupier and/or oppressor. Second,
>only a mass movement that has been politicised and
>imbued with a vision of participating directly in a future
>of its own making, only such a movement has historical
>chance of liberating itself from oppression or military
>occupation. The future, like the past, is built by human
>beings. They, and not some distant mediator or saviour,
>provide the agency for change.


Said is correct. Those that think fertilising co-operation between 
academics, activists and the public is silly, might want to 
re-examine their assumptions?

P.