Capitalism is organized on a global scale. Hence resistance to capitalist
domination must also involve a global strategy and global action. This
much everyone here seems to agree with.
Beyond this many of our "core" posters seem possessed by a semi-religious
fixation on antique marxist analysis - dangerously out of touch with
current reality. Also we see a messianic fixation on a global
revolutionary movement - pinning hopes for salvation on an event which has
as much likelihood - and over which we have as much control - as the second
coming of Christ.
This quasi-religious detachment from rational analysis is further evidenced
by the fact that there seems to be no interest on the list in the actual
architecture of today's globalist system. My many postings on this topic
are generally received as disturbances from the "periphery" of thought -
either ignored or dismissed. Most ironic on a list dubbed "world systems".
Our experts evidently want to steer our world-system vehicle by peering in
the rear-view mirror, with occasional reference to a fantasy map of a
utopian future. Actually looking around at current reality seems to be
off-topic. Perhaps this is simply the general "academic condition" - since
reality is messy, it easier to deal with fossilized analytical systems or
imaginary utopian futures.
I suggest that in a battle situation the mentality of a general is more
useful than the mentality of an historian. A good general looks at
reality, at the balance of forces, at the available resources, and at the
full spectrum of strategic options. A bad general is fixated by what he's
learned about past battles and is always re-fighting yesterday's wars.
Our Western nation states, even though they have long been co-opted by
capitalist forces, nonetheless offer us by far the most accessible and
powerful platform from which to launch any kind of counter offensive.
Although our experts seem oblivious to this plain fact, it is well known to
our capitalist masters and that is why dismantlement of the powerful and
sovereign nation state is the centerpiece of their current globalist
revolution. They are quite aware that all effective resistance to their
designs (worker rights, environmentalism, brakes on interventionism, etc.)
all arise from our "excessively democratic" Western nation states.
The fixation on an all-at-once global revolution, and the downplaying of a
more nation-centered approach, only serves to distract us from deploying
the resources available to us and to delay revolutionary action while the
globalist regime consolidates its unprecedented level of control over our
lives and our options.
It is not only analytically wrong, but extremely dangerous. I accuse our
experts of being counter-revolutionary dupes, playing into the hands or our
oppressors.
rkm
btw> won't be able to respond for the rest of this week.