Re: a violent revolution?

I just wanted to say wooohoooo! Thanks for saying it. I agree. Just keep in 
mind that obvious truths are the movers and shakers in this arena, and that 
those are what we are looking for here. At least that is what I look for 
here.

Matthew Horning
MI, USA


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>You would think from recent posts that the list has been transformed into
>a revolutionary organization debating strategy.  As if a loose circle of
>core academics is going to to launch a revolution, violent or otherwise...
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>The real issue for this list to discuss is what is likely to happen, given
>the structural conditions we have identified.  We are not going to make
>the revolution, it is going to happen, and then the question is how do we
>relate to it.
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>Unless we truly have entered a New Age, there will be violent revolution,
>mainly in the periphery and semi-periphery, whether we like it or not.  In
>the core, there is not likely to be, unless and until the next core war.
>At that point, a pledge of pacifism may just insure your irrelevance.  But
>for now, the sort of movements coalescing in Seattle are the name of the
>game in the core, not some sort of storming of the winter palace.  The
>action is in the periphery (Amin's terminology), or semi-periphery
>(Chase-Dunn's terminology).  The lofty moral pronouncements of a few core
>academics are not going to affect that one way or another.  What can we do
>to facilitate the countermovement from below?  It seems to me our time
>would be much better spent building networks of awareness and support for
>the movements on the ground than this far-fetched notion that we are going
>to be the world vanguard.
>
>Richard Hutchinson
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