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

[Michel Bauwens]

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 <dreamingforward at gmail.com>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.
>
> Marcos
> pangaia.sf.net
>
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