I used to be actually engaged in organizing, and felt like I used to have at least a little skill for articulating ideas of class struggle in a clear and repeatable way that could motivate my coworkers. I really don't have that ability anymore, probably from lack of practice, but I'm also I'm in a professional circle now with so little instinct for class consciousness that I wouldn't know where to begin. To hear someone like Stalin articulate his revolutionary analysis so plainly, without telling anyone to go read something they really don't want to read, was really impressive. Even with H G Wells he didn't have to say "let me send you back to this essay by Marx." He was just able to say, over and over, "look, this is how the world works, and you know I'm right because you've never seen it any other way in your own life or in any of the history you know."
Imagine Stalin in Moscow communicating to the US as it collapses from an avoidable covid epidemic? Who will be the American Stalin? It won't be me. I'm looking at you.
Just finished it. It's amazing.
I used to be actually engaged in organizing, and felt like I used to have at least a little skill for articulating ideas of class struggle in a clear and repeatable way that could motivate my coworkers. I really don't have that ability anymore, probably from lack of practice, but I'm also I'm in a professional circle now with so little instinct for class consciousness that I wouldn't know where to begin. To hear someone like Stalin articulate his revolutionary analysis so plainly, without telling anyone to go read something they really don't want to read, was really impressive. Even with H G Wells he didn't have to say "let me send you back to this essay by Marx." He was just able to say, over and over, "look, this is how the world works, and you know I'm right because you've never seen it any other way in your own life or in any of the history you know."
Imagine Stalin in Moscow communicating to the US as it collapses from an avoidable covid epidemic? Who will be the American Stalin? It won't be me. I'm looking at you.
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