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I
think changing the world requires finding a new way to persuade people.
That means figuring out why we have previously failed to be peruasive.
Perhaps our personalties are unlikeable. Perhaps we use too many big words.
Perhaps we need to communicate more through song lyrics and less through
angry yelling. Whatever it is, we need to find it out, and when we find
it out, be willing to admit it.
I don't agree with the old Marxian idea that
capitalist society will one day "collapse" due to its
"inner contradictions" leading to a "new crisis."
That's just wishful thinking. There are too many ways the people who run
the system can prop it up. It can operate horribly bad but it still goes
on existing -- until someone persuades the people consciously to change
it.
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I have two ideas to unite the splintered left:
(1) Adopting a new tradition that everyone who
disagrees with each other about some things have to cooperate in whatever
they agree on. So if group #1 believes in idea A,B,C,D and group #2
believes in ideas D,E,F,G then they have to collaborate on at least one
project that promotes idea D.
(2) Adopting a new tradition that groups that
disagree about something will coauthor a statement that describes their
disagreement in words that both groups can agree on. They don't
compromise their principles but they have to understand each other enough
to agree on how to state what each other's positions are.
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