On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:
>
> Dear Christian,
>
> Yes, that is exactly the question. How? And yes, there is no
> hint in 1996 of anything like a World Party forming anywhere. But you
> can't leap from this observation to the conclusion that "it ain't gonna
> happen." The more people who believe that the best way to confront the
> challenge of a proliferating globalizing capitalism aided and abetted by
> the nation-state system is to build a global political formation to oppose
> that system, the more likely it is that a nucleus of activists here or
> there will begin to build one--or several. We have to start with some
> kind of rough consensus about what must be done. Never mind the odds.
> They're pretty low. So what? We don't have the option of moving to Mars.
> You play with the hand you've been dealt. What comes first is a climate
> of expectation for authentically antisystemic global political action.
> The more people who share that expectation, the more likelihood it can
> provoke serious attempts to move from theory to praxis. In short, you
> gotta believe!
>
> Warren
>
>
Yes--but what do you 'gotta believe' in? that the same old 'strategy'
(use parties (or party) to take over states will produce different result
than last time (i.e. the third international). Sorry, that's too much of
a leap of faith for my taste.
S Sherman
Binghamton >