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planetcon [2017/12/03 11:59] Anna Rebrii |
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- | Fred's comment: The editor of Jacobin posted on his Facebook on how B Sanders was successful in coming up with slogans that resonated with people:just put free and for all and everything goes. | + | Fred's comment: Bhaskar Sunkara, publisher of //Jacobin//, posted on his Facebook page about how Bernie Sanders creates slogans that resonate with people: just pick some social good, put "free" front and "for all" at the end and voila - Free healthcare for all! Free education for all! Free childcare for all! Etc. |
Richard: Stop leftists to use the phrase dictatorship of proletariat. Which Marx was not using. Opened up an easy way to attack socialism as a form of dictatorship. | Richard: Stop leftists to use the phrase dictatorship of proletariat. Which Marx was not using. Opened up an easy way to attack socialism as a form of dictatorship. | ||
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R: describe it and give people the idea. | R: describe it and give people the idea. | ||
+ | R: The power of narrative : Sam's poetry. | ||
+ | Let's keep putting the stuff up in the formula Then How Now and later we will make it a coherent whole - but not too unified not to become those sectarian left sects. Let's have many visions of a different world. It will be more inspiring the less it is narrow and factional. | ||
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+ | My next thought: we need to reach out to other people. We have the about Us section and I hope that over this break we can send it out - but by a real message to people whom we know, who would be sympathetic and invite them to join in. It is doable. | ||
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+ | F: I thought it is easy to write THEN and relatively easy to write the NOW. the real challenge is to write the HOW. I can imagine taking Sam's poems line by line and elaborating on them. Moving away from NYC and imagining how it happneed in other regions of the world: Paris, Latin America. | ||
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+ | R: All the different categories: we will focalize how it all happen in all of these areas and hopefully to get people from those areas, e.g. North Africa, to internationalize it. | ||