Re: <nettime> The Left Needs a New Strategy

[Dmytri Kleiner <dk@telekommunisten.net>]

On 2021-01-18 20:26, Brian Holmes wrote:

> Why don't we all just cool out? I am glad to bury the hatchet. It's
> also possible to simply not read what one has no patience for.

Yes, and when we talk in person, social cues, back channel and nonverbal 
communications enrich the dialog, reducing the negative effects of bias 
and missed cues.

As always, I'm open to moderation and ready to self-crit, there's almost 
never a hatchet I'm unwilling to bury.

So, for those with the patience to engage, the essence of the arguments 
I'm putting forward lay in dialectical materialism and proletarian 
internationalism. Which, in less arcane language, means working directly 
on concrete problems directly with the people facing them in iterative 
cycles, and insisting on respectful engagement with our comrades abroad, 
deferring the resolution of their contradictions to them rather than 
judging and denouncing from afar, and confronting our own countries 
aggression against them.

This is a strategy.

As mentioned, this strategy has a distinguished and interesting 
pedigree, with roots in Mao, Fanon and Che, a solid trunk in Dewey, 
Freire and Foster, and modern flowers in everything from McAlevey to 
Lean UX, as well as a domesticated parallel construction in Business 
Management Thoery, especially Goldratt and Deming.

If all this is boring, I'm not sure what this list finds interesting 
anymore.


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Dmytri Kleiner
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