[R-G] redux, Part 2

[Macdonald Stainsby]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jones" <jones118 at lineone.net>

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It is the real, concrete
> nature of this dialectic we need to investigate, and conspiracy theory does
> not help us to do that. Thus, we need to avoid being trapped by
> conspiracy-theorising and look deeper into the fine grain of event, the
> texture of the conjuncture. 911 for instance was surely not a conspiracy of
> the US ruling class/Bush regime, despite the fact that the event was
> shrouded in conspiracy, both by the perpetrators and by their symbiotic
> evil partners/enemies, the Bushies and their backers and promoters within
> US finance and corporate capital.

I have not been able to get through all of this one of Mark's fine analysis, but
since I'm short on time today- snipping and challenging this- or perhaps
proposing an amendment, if you like- is felt needed by me.

What Mark is getting at above is not quite either A) agreed as an "of course" by
everyone, nor is it secondary to systemic crises we are heading towards, a very
very real crisis. The kicker, however- to the "conspiracy theory" is the
difference between night and day. Getting bogged down in it, to me- this means
running around talking about the different reasons that perhaps the operation
was *allowed* to go off, and of course that any bourgeoisie who deem such an
actrion neccessary are then dealing with a major, endemic and systemic crisis.

In fact, we should focus more on what Mark describes- but as a part of the whole
which penetrates notions (unsolved, undetermined) as to where we are heading in
the wake of all this. And the fact is, if they planned this- it means they are
light years ahead of us in planning, but it also simultaneously means that they
know that the whole she-bang is unravelling all around them. So, I am delighted
to see Mark kicking our collective rears in what I consider the right direction,
but there is something missed in all of this: we don't need to divide things
into "discussable" and "not" for several reasons: One, we don't have a mass or a
large influence radical organisation like the SDS- let alone the Blosheviks.
Thus, we can free ourselves from needing a "line" in the (for a lack of a less
descriptive term) "Cadre" sense. Time is going to build us this ocean for us to
swim in- or else all is lost and we can sit back and simply wait it all out. In
the meantime, we need to continue our community outreach. A few weeks back now,
Carrol was saying on LBO that he believed the new movement(s) popping up around
all this had a longer, deeper chance at success - due to what is being done in
people's communities- and I have come to agree over time, now finally feeling
like a better understanding of community organising means. It means going into
reactionary suburbs, it means not organising the same old people yet again. It
means going to the fucking mall, and it doesn't mean talking to them about CIA
connections with all of this.

That means nothing about our own research, which we must be dilligent in
carrying out, and very deliberate about sharing resources and ideas- since we do
not have a Central policy carrying out orders and forcing study of a certain
area. We need to look at: 1) the general crisis and where it comes from (I leave
this, currently, to Mark and others).
 2) The events around 9-11 in order to get a sense what the bad guys are up to-
the more of their own complicity the evidence shows, yes- the more amazingly
ahead of us they are- but he counter to that is that the more likely also is a
total, unsolvable systemic crisis in existence. That is the dialectical *d'uh*
we have been neglecting. In the world today, leadership might be incompetent-
but it is not stupid. Something that might not be "bin Laden" such as this
action would only be resorted to by the oil crew in time of deep, unresolved and
near total cracks in the imperialist armour. We need to remember that
imperialism is in fact, weaker than first world capitalism- there is less
flexibility.
3) The time to speak of the impact of imperialism in the region (Iraq,
Palestine, etc.) has never been more pronounced. We must seize this- and not be
accused of tailing the Fundamentalists. The usual way that people do this is to
denounce them as really really bad. That is not a workable solution. We need to
give little in the way of such personal attitude towards all of this. We need to
be in the front lines of imperialist smashing, but *DO IT BETTER*.

There is a new card being issued to all so-called "non-citizens". It is called
the "Maple Leaf" card at this point. It has a decode strip (apparently
terrorists can destroy buildings with airplanes but they can't counterfeit
plastic...) and is required on the person at all times- with risk of arrest,
detention and deportation if not carried. Simply put, if we do not stand in the
front on this question we are worth nothing to anyone. This is going to be one
of the most horrific orgies of racist backlash; we have seen the crackers burn
the mosques and shoot some Sikhs- now the government will round them up
("alright boys, bring me the tired, then the poor- then latch up the huddled
masses...".) and it starts with this latter-day Star of David stuff. We need
(here at least) to set to creating safe houses, defense groupings, etc. etc.

Study Study, organise, organise. I am looking to this and other lists like it to
make Mao's maxim ring very true (apologies to all who hate Mao- just trust me on
this, ok?)
Theory (list-serves among leftists, fleshing out what's next) serves practice
(community work *w/o* the discussion of the possible complicity of the bastards)
and practice (what works while talking to people- I challenge the notion that
the war is really on terrorismfor example) serves theory (theory of how to
capitalise and break their spine before the systemic shit they are feeding us
with an insane war- before the paper tiger shows very real teeth and eats us
alive, how do we light it on fire?).

Okay. That's my longest rant of the week.

Macdonald