And Xenu Marx was wrong . . . AGAIN!
" . . . This is ABC for Marxists who have consistently inveighed against “impossibilist” or “maximalist” demands in favour of intervention in mass movements with “minimalist” or at least with what Trotsky preferred to call “transitional” demands.
The starting point is always the political consciousness of those listening. It is not what WE believe. It is what THEY believe. I would no more today call for "all workers in all industries to be compensated at the same, highest level” than I would for “armed struggle to overthrow capitalism” though I believe the latter would be necessary and might be persuaded about the need for one big wage. But workers would not regard either call as "relevant" and "practical" unless they were on the brink of social revolution. They would regard them as delusional and, moreover, that their workmates, friends, family, and strangers who they were trying to organize would react likewise .
Which is why they would stare at Sartesian in disbelief and he would have to come down to earth with a series of practical propsals which addressed their immediate rather than historical needs before they would begin to take him seriously.
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