having lived in 3 (failed) communes myself, I would question any interpretation that only blames outside pressures ..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Mark Janssen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com">dreamingforward@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">> Your essay should begin with:<br>
><br>
> Class society does not exist simply because nobody has been clever enough to<br>
> think-up a better system. Class society evolved over time, under force, to<br>
> serve the interests of the most powerful.<br>
><br>
> Everything before that, all references to Marx and Bookchin are confusing<br>
> and superfluous.<br>
><br>
> You say, "Thinking is Utopian when it has no political program, no<br>
> revolutionary theory, when it doesn't address how the balance of power will<br>
> be changed so that a new society is possible."<br>
<br>
</div>This is only partly true. �The keepers of history (and all the<br>
"karmic" (im-)balances that implies), require that the emotions behind<br>
Utopia, however pure they may be, have a *story* in which to live -- a<br>
story that does not "jag" against those histories.<br>
<br>
This is part of the reason, btw, the hippies failed during the 60's --<br>
they didn't the story where that "free love" could live; hence the<br>
police put pressure back on their revolution. �This will always be the<br>
case and every police blockage should be seen as a "meta-" act of<br>
historic consiousness preserving some truth which has not been<br>
acknowledged.<br>
<br>
Marcos<br>
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