having lived in 3 (failed) communes myself, I would question any interpretation that only blames outside pressures .. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Mark Janssen <[email protected]>wrote:
Your essay should begin with:
Class society does not exist simply because nobody has been clever enough to think-up a better system. Class society evolved over time, under force, to serve the interests of the most powerful.
Everything before that, all references to Marx and Bookchin are confusing and superfluous.
You say, "Thinking is Utopian when it has no political program, no revolutionary theory, when it doesn't address how the balance of power will be changed so that a new society is possible."
This is only partly true. The keepers of history (and all the "karmic" (im-)balances that implies), require that the emotions behind Utopia, however pure they may be, have a *story* in which to live -- a story that does not "jag" against those histories.
This is part of the reason, btw, the hippies failed during the 60's -- they didn't the story where that "free love" could live; hence the police put pressure back on their revolution. This will always be the case and every police blockage should be seen as a "meta-" act of historic consiousness preserving some truth which has not been acknowledged.
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