[P2P-F] Fwd: The False Defences Of Utopian Thought

[Mark Janssen]

> 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.

Marcos
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