New Cities/New Soviets

March 23, 2005

"It was in the last place I looked!"

In discussing the last entry with Molly, I realized how important it is to deflate any labor triumphalism. It is not an ethical conservatism, as zizek would have it, that hampers labor, it is a strategic conservatism. We have to be willing to lose a lot of battles.

There's a joke Jeff Foxworthy tells: "You know what people always say when they had to look for something really hard? 'You're not going to believe it -- it was in the last place I looked!' Well...yeah, I hope so. I'd be surprised if you kept looking even after you found it!"

So for labor's struggle with capital: by definition, we loose every battle but the last one!

Posted by Sam at March 23, 2005 05:22 AM

It should be added, too, that unlike Negri, who seems to want to go straight to the last battle, all materialists know we can only get there faster by being willing to lose.

Posted by: sam at March 23, 2005 05:35 AM

the n stages baby
the n stages


zig zag

not zeeeeeg heil

down with
the frozen currentdown with todays
afl-xxx executive soviet
up with the job a kazees

Posted by: meat at March 30, 2005 07:39 PM

"we can only get there faster by being willing to lose."


agrred

but we gotta put up the best fight possible each and every time

thats what the leninist party is all about
its a prole klass sharknot just a struggle organization
but

the optimal klass fighting machine

Posted by: meat at April 14, 2005 05:35 PM

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