He also said you can't make an omelette without braking eggs and that is
literally true isn't it? you can't unless you drill the shells and suck out
the yolks
I also like something that WB Yeats wrote
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity
I wonder which one I am ?
Larry
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>
> Liz mentions the DANMAIL list and quotes Lenin "An ounce of struggle is
> worth a ton of theory".
>
> Well, look where Lenin lead to. Stalin.
>
> And look what DAN is currently up to. Letting off stink bombs in
> charity balls organised by Leonard Cheshire foundation.
>
> Great way to win friends and influence people! If DAN thinks that's
> non-violent direct action, they obviously haven't been reading their
> Ghandi or Martin Luther King.
>
> The problem is that instead of a mass movement, winning over other
> disabled people and gaining popular support, you end up with a narrow
> vanguard of ultra-radicals who think they know best what is in the
> interests of their constituency, and reject those who disagree as having
> false consciousness or whatever.
>
> The best struggle is based on a good analysis of the situation. Look at
> Gramsci and his distinction between war of position and war of attack,
> and his notion of counter hegemony.
>
> Anger has its place. But as Frantz Fanon says, fervour is dangerous.
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