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Popular Vision and Vanguardism
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications...]
The current economic crisis has dealt a powerful blow to Milton Friedman's socio-economic vision and the dogma, propounded by followers of the Chicago School movement - there is no alternative - that has helped maintain it.
The Masses and the Conscious Minority:
Nowadays the notion of a vanguard is usually associated with Marxism - or more precisely with what are seen as the negative, authoritarian and elitist aspects of Marxism-Leninism. History however reveals that the theory of vanguardism has actually been put into practice right across the revolutionary left spectrum. The anarchist historian Daniel Guerin, for example, writes that "Although he had become an anarchist, Bakunin remained convinced of the need for a conscious vanguard" quoting Bakunin as saying "For revolution to triumph over reaction the unity of revolutionary thought and action must have an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the very life and the source of all the energy of the revolution."
Both Marxists and anarchists understand that the revolutionary potential resides within the masses. However, they both also recognise that there is an unevenness in the level of class consciousness amongst the masses due to the fact that the dominant ideas in any society are those of the dominant classes.
Marxist-Leninists argue that a successful revolution requires the conscious minority to organise into a vanguard party which functions along democratic centralist lines. This is necessary, they say, "because the ruling class is highly centralised" and "If you are not symmetrical to your enemy you can never win".
This strategy is of course highly controversial. For one thing we may not be all that surprised to see that the outcome of a revolution that models itself "symmetrically" on its "enemy" turns out to duplicate many of the horrible social features that were in place during the pre-revolutionary period. This, of course, is what we saw with the Russian Revolution.
Apologists for Bolshevik tyranny may argue that the Russian Revolution degenerated because of external factors - like the resulting civil war and the isolation due to the failure of the revolution to spread to Europe.
Organising the vanguard into a "highly centralised" party mean institutionalising a hierarchical division of labour. In turn this means that those elected to the centre get to monopolise empowering tasks within the party / movement. As a result of this arrangement any discussions that occur within the party will most likely be dominated by those at the centre. Over time this arrangement will most likely foster an anti-participatory culture as the democratic process becomes ever more meaningless. What we tend to see as an outcome of this strategy is the elevation of a professional-managerial class who come to dominate the revolutionary process whilst the working class continue in their traditional role of carrying-out orders sent down from above.
This is not to say that the external conditions the Bolsheviks were up-against during the Russian Revolution had no negative impact on the outcome of the revolution. Rather, the point is that regardless of external circumstances, the internal dynamic of a vanguard party organised along democratic centralist lines actually reinforce and accentuate the divide between the conscious minority and the masses which invariably lead to new forms of class dominance.
Such an understanding first requires a class consciousness not only of the working and capitalists classes but also that of the professional-managerial class. However, as one commentator has pointed out -
Unfortunately, for all its emphasis on class analysis, Marxism blinded many fighting against the economics of competition and greed to important antagonisms between the working class and the new, professional managerial, or coordinator class.
Another controversial claim made by advocates of the democratic centralist vanguard party is that of the supposedly "spontaneous" nature of the uprisings by the workers. As we have seen this is a crucial part of the argument that justifies the need to organise the vanguard into a party. Presumably this is because organising into a party gives the vanguard much more power over the masses allowing them greater opportunities to overcome inconsistencies within the movement and guidance over the revolutionary process. However, as it turns out, the claim that these worker uprisings are spontaneous is something of a myth -
The rural "soviets" that later formed the spearhead for the revolution and land reform in Russia were not creations of Mensheviks or Bolsheviks - who were virtually unknown in the Russian countryside prior to 1917 - but the fruits of decades of organising by different groups of rural Russian libertarian socialists. Nor did the rural soviets spontaneously appear from the untutored consciousness of the exploited peasant "masses" without organisational precedent. Rural soviets only appeared suddenly and acted decisively because the idea of radical land reform had been nurtured for decades in most Russian villages by Narodniki, anarchists, and cadre from the Left Social Revolutionary Party, and because villages with battle-tested leadership already existed to form the backbone of the rural soviets."
Perhaps not surprisingly, and for rather obvious ideological reasons, advocates of Bolshevik style strategy play down or entirely ignore these historical findings. Clearly the fact that the vanguard can so effectively organise without forming itself into a party greatly damages the Marxist argument. As we shall see however, the Marxist argument is to some extent reprieved by the failings of the anarchist proposals.
Whilst the anarchist conception of the vanguard may be seen by some as less controversial than that of the Marxists it has to be said that it has been no more successful in bringing about a social revolution. Inspired by the ideas of Bakunin, the anarcho-syndicalists during the Spanish Civil War, for example, organised themselves into the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) which operated as an ideologically conscious minority inside the National Confederation of Labour (CNT). According to Guerin, however, this anarchist vanguard did not "perform its part of guide very well, being clumsy and hesitant about its tutelage over the trade unions, irresolute in its strategy, and more richly endowed with activists and demagogues than with revolutionaries as clear-thinking on the level of theory as on that of practice." Guerin concludes from all of this -
Relations between the masses and the conscious minority constitutes a problem to which no full solution has been found by the Marxists or even by the anarchists, and one on which it seems that the last word has not yet been said.
What is to be (re)Done?
Here I would like to suggest that the main reason for the misguided organising by the Marxists and dysfunctional organising by the anarchists throughout the twentieth century was, to a large extent, due to a lack of any clearly defined long-term objectives. We may speculate further and consider the possibility that if the Marxist and anarchist vanguard had focused their energies more on developing shared vision then the initial split within the revolutionary left may never have occurred.
The split within the revolutionary left was (and still is) essentially over strategy. Marxist and anarchist develop strategy from their understanding of what is wrong with society and therefore focus on what they are against - anti-capitalist, anti-government etc. But if they had also focused their attention on developing shared vision the strategy the vanguard developed would have been informed not only by the reality on the ground but also by their long term vision. We may therefore conclude that the strategy the vanguard developed would have been different.
Take for example the idea of the vanguard party. We have already seen how dangerous this strategy can be when organised along democratic centralist lines. However, we might find that a vanguard party with an internal structure informed by our long-term vision could prove a very effective form of organisation.
The addition of shared vision as part of a comprehensive program for social transformation address the weaknesses we identified earlier in revolutionary left strategy. But, perhaps more importantly, a strategy informed by our shared vision will also minimise the dangers of the gap between the conscious minority and the masses increasing and becoming a permanent fixture.
Both political parties and trade union networks could be used, along side others, as vehicles to popularise the vision. As the vision becomes more widely known and understood the gap between the active minority and the passive majority is reduced. Therefore the dynamic of this strategy would be for the vanguard to expand into an ever more popular movement.
Unfortunately such proposals are typically rejected by the revolutionary left. The development of shared vision tends to be dismissed by Marxists on the grounds that it is unscientific and utopian whereas the anarchists tend to avoid such tactics because they see it as inherently elitist and authoritarian. Most people today understand that the dismissal, by Marxists, of developing shared vision is based on the false claim that Marxism is itself scientific. This claim has, for decades, acted as an intellectual barrier to the development of popular vision. But now that Marxism's claim of being scientific has been exposed as mere ideology we can get on with the important task of developing a set of shared long term objectives. Also, as we shall see, developing shared vision does not need to be elitist and authoritarian but instead can be a participatory process based on common sense.
A Common Sense Approach to Developing Shared Vision:
It is fashionable amongst global justice activists to respond to Margaret Thatcher's TINA doctrine - there is no alternative - by asserting, "one no, many yeses" or, "there are thousands of alternatives". However, any serious enquiry into our actual options is likely to reveal that they are a lot more limited than these slogans suggest.
Society is a complicated system. To try and make sense of it we must first break it down into its component parts. For example we can identify a number of "spheres" that go to make-up society - the political, economic, kinship and community spheres. These spheres are present in all human societies and of course exist within the greater ecosystem. We can also identify two fundamental networks that go to make up each sphere. The first is human beings with all our wants and needs, our skills and levels of consciousness. The second are institutions with all of their structures and rules.
Now that we have broken society down into more manageable component parts we need to specify the basic function of each sphere. Take for example the economic sphere. Its primary functions are - production, consumption and allocation. Different economic systems will perform these primary functions in different ways. What determines any diversity of economic systems is the values that underlie the different modes of production, consumption and allocation.
So, we have three primary functions that all economic systems have to perform. We can now ask: What are our options for production consumption and allocation? The following are more specific questions regarding these primary economic functions -
•One obvious arrangement that greatly impacts on the type of economy we end up with is that of ownership. What are our options for ownership?
•Another important issue that determines different economic systems is that of decision-making authority. What are our options for decision-making?
•The question of workplace structure also impacts on the type of economy we have. What are our options for workplace structure?
•We also need to consider differing criteria for remuneration. What are our options for rewarding people for their economic activity?
•One other very important aspect of any economic model is its chosen means of allocating product. What are our options for allocating goods and services?
We can come-up with a number of answers to these questions but the number will be limited. Take for example the question of ownership. There are only three basic options - Private, State or Collective ownership for us to choose from. Or consider our options for decision-making authority. Here, yet again, we can identify three basic options - Autocracy, democratic centralism or self-management. Of course, we have to be open to other new options being proposed in the future, but for now these are our options.
So we can see that our actual options are in fact quite limited. However, they become even more limited when we realise that for our economic model to function each of our answers needs to be compatible with each other. Consider for example our options so far -
Ownership - Private or State or Collective?
Decision-making - Autocratic or Democratic centralism or Self-management?
If we choose private ownership we can not then choose self-management as our option for decision-making for the simple reason that they are incompatible - they undermine each other. So whatever answers we give to the above questions they also need to be compatible with each other which reduces our actual options for possible economic systems even further.
At the end of this process we should end-up with a small number of economic models to choose from. Which model we choose will be determined by our values which are commonly held amongst radical-progressives and mostly uncontroversial.
The same process can be employed to develop vision for the other social spheres. However we can not develop vision for each sphere in isolation without consideration of how that sphere impacts on other spheres as well as the ecosystem. Just as each component part of the economy needs to be compatible with each other so too must the different social spheres complement each other as well as be sustainable.
In the first part of this essay I highlighted the point that historically the need for a vanguard was understood right across the revolutionary Left spectrum. I also highlighted the continuing problem faced by the revolutionary Left - whether libertarian or authoritarian - of the role of the vanguard, its form and function, and how it interacts with the general public. I then went on to suggest that a possible reason for this ongoing problem is due to a failure, by the revolutionary Left, to develop shared vision. I argue that the rejection, by Marxists and anarchists, to focus on long term objectives has only helped maintain the original split within the revolutionary Left movement. Finally I sketched out an approach to developing shared vision that could help overcome this historic split. If such an approach did work this could open-up new possibilities for organising a popular movement with a real sense of direction that could become an effective challenge to hegemony.
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Re: Popular Vision and VanguardismBy Wetzel, Tom at Aug 08, 2009 12:58 PM |
Mark, You write:
"You ask "Since people then were not aware of the subsequent problems and critiques of central planning even in a democratic form, how could democratic central planning not be seen as a good idea? My answer is that first of all I don't think we need to experience central planning to understand that it undermines self-management and classlessness. We can work this out in our heads and given that the brain has not evolved much since 1936 I assume that people back then could do the same. Secondly, I suspect that many of the people who opted not to support libertarian socialist struggles did so because they intuitively understood that central planning contradicts self-management. "
We're going to have to simply disagree here. First, because the anarcho-syndicalists, as I pointed out, weren't committed to "central planning" and, second, because your claim that absence of support internationally for them was due to this is so completely off the wall. People around the world weren't informed as to what was actually going on...and few people in the USA or UK had any idea about Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, the extent of the worker self-management of industry...much less what the program of the anarcho-syndicalists was. Moreover, as I pointed out, it's highly implausible to suppose that, even if there were more support for them in the USA and UK, this would have led the US and UK governments to provide them with generous credits of the sort Hitler provided. Capitalist governments aren't going to support proletarian revolutions.
And if you're not arguing for agreement with parsoc/parecon, I must have misunderstood what you're proposing. In any event I expect that debates and disagreements on the left are likely to continue indefinitely on vision and strategy.
"compelling vision" to who, when?By Wetzel, Tom at Jul 30, 2009 11:06 AM |
In regard to re-integrating conceptual and decision-making tasks with doing of the physical work...what you call "balanced job complexes," this idea was advocated in a not-fully-worked out form by Kropotkin in "Factories, Fields and Workshops." It couldn't have been developed fully back in the early 20th century because that's when Taylorism and the process of systemic de-skilling was just getting going. We didn't have the long experience we've subsequently had with the kind of hierarchical division of labor that has been developed over the past century, in "Communist" countries as well as capitaliist ones. And this leads me to point out the generally ahistorical nature of your comments. We learn things over time, through various struggles, and grappling with changes in society.
In regard to the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists and planning, only some of them advocated central planning. This was De Santillan in "After the revolution". And in the highly grassroots form of workers congresses, not the state centralist form practiced in the USSR. I'm not here saying that central planning of this sort is what I support. but your argument was that they lacked "compelling vision". Compelling to whom? In that era the entire left from liberals and social democrats to some libertarian socialists like de Santillan advocated some form of central planning...a highly democratic form in de Santillan's case.
Since people then were not aware of the subsequent problems and critiques of central planning even in a democratic form, how could democratic central planning not be seen as a good idea? If it was highly democratic, based on worker assemblies and delegate congresses, it would have seemed highly empowering to many working class people back then. Your criticisms of it are technical and developed only in light of later experience. It's highly implausible and ahistorical to say that people back then would have looked askance at it for those reasons.
Secondly, de Santillan's plan was not adopted by the anarcho-syndicalist unions. so in fact they did not accept central planning. They wanted to add in input from residence-based neighborhood assemblies. In their program these were to be the channels for consumer input for public goods....just as in parecon. It's just that they hadn't worked out what the relationship would be between the worker congresses and the neighborhood assemblies as far as the development of an economic plan. but it's not implausible to suggest that they might have hit upon participatory planning or something like that in trying to work it out in practice. to say that working people around the world would be less supportive of them because they hadn't worked out participatory planning...an idea that wasn't developed til the late '70s...is highly implusible.
What we're talking about is how justified a program will appear to people. and in that era, the anarcho-syndicalist program went further in the direction of self-management both in the workplace and neighborhood than had been done by any movement before....for example further than had been suggested during the Russian revolution.
you don't give enough weight to the fact that they were actually carrying it out. being something real is far more "compelling" than some sect's plans. "compelling" means "will appear to be justified" or "is well supported". the rationality of a program isn't only in the abstract case for its features but also in judgments about practicality or feasibility. doing something in practice greatly strengthens the case for something. so when hundreds of thousands of workers in Spain expropriated the capitalists and established worker assemblies and elected councils and began running the various industries themselves, this is far more 'compelling" an argument for the feasibility of this than an abstract case in a book.
when you are dismissive of the achievement of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement, you're making it more likely others on the libertarian Left will not take you seriously.
in regard to the situation in the '30s, there is, as I've argued above, no reason to think people in general would have been aware of the technical criticisms developed later about even highly democratic central planning. thus when you say "I also find it hard to imagine how such a vision could fail to impact negatively on the level of solidarity" this comment strikes me as, again, ahistorical and highly implausible.
The program is something that can be developed through on-going dialogue. for example nowadays many libertarian socialists agree with the idea of re-integration of conceptual and decision-making tasks with the physical work nowadays, more than in the '30s, including people who don't necessarily agree with all of parecon. but when you're dismissive of the history of libertarian Left ideas and struggles, you'll have a harder time getting others on the libertarian Left to listen.
also, you confuse the question of the attractiveness of the aims and achievements of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism in the '30s with what I would consider an adequate program at present. i think recognizing the importance of direct democracy in communities through neighborhood assemblies, as channels for input about public goods consumption, and advocating re-integration of conceptualization and decision-making tasks with the physical doing of the work, and workers direct management through assemblies and so on, and integrating all this through some system of grassroots democratic planning would be good progress in terms of program, and what I've described is a brief summary of the economic/political "vision" of the political group I belong to.
as i mentioned before, there is more understanding on the libertarian left now in regard to the need to have a systematic approach to re-skilling and re-organizing jobs than in the '30s. but to say that an adequate organization must agree 100% with every detail of parecon is a recipe for sectarianism. it's certainly not going to be a way to overcome the anarchist/marxist divide as you suggest because you're not going to get everybody on either side of that divide to agree with it hook line and sinker. I think we can consider that these ideas will continue to evolve in activist circles and there will continue to be discussion.
movements develop and do so through ongoing debate and dialogue. i suspect that participatory ecnomics will make more headway among libertarian socialists if there is more willingness to examine the history of the development of the ideas and recognition of earlier contributions.
the ideas about re-integration of conceputalization and decision-making with physical doing of work is an idea that goes back, as I pointed out, to remarks of people like Kropotkin, Marx, William Morris. And then in the '70s/'80s period there was a burst of discussion of the hierarchical division of labor, looking at the nature of the "middle layers" of corporate capitalism and the effects of Taylorism, in the writings of people like Harry Braverman, David Noble, Steve Marglin, Barbara Ehrenreich, and others. Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel were influenced by this debate back then.
And the same is true of the history of negotiated coordination between people as consumers and producers. This idea was first proposed by some of the British syndicalist intellectuals in the world War 1 era, the people known as guild socialists. It was forgotten about during the heyday of central planning, but then revived by various radical economists in the '70s. I think it's useful to acknowledge the earlier contributions and to look at the development of the ideas historically rather than simply presenting a "vision" as if it fell from the moon in 1990.
*Sorry about the slow reply – I had no internet access last week * Tom – I am happy to substitute "vague" with "not fully worked out". You ask "Since people then were not aware of the subsequent problems and critiques of central planning even in a democratic form, how could democratic central planning not be seen as a good idea? My answer is that first of all I don't think we need to experience central planning to understand that it undermines self-management and classlessness. We can work this out in our heads and given that the brain has not evolved much since 1936 I assume that people back then could do the same. Secondly, I suspect that many of the people who opted not to support libertarian socialist struggles did so because they intuitively understood that central planning contradicts self-management. Within this context opting to support authoritarian socialism (where there is no internal contradiction) in my opinion makes a lot more sense than most anarchists seem to appreciate. However I think the development of participatory planning as a classless system of allocation changes this, and with it creates a great opportunity to overcome the division between libertarian and authoritarian socialists. You also write "… but to say that an adequate organization must agree 100% with every detail of parecon is a recipe for sectarianism." Could you please point out where in my essay I say anything about agreeing 100% with parecon |
avoiding the sectarianism trapBy D'Arcy, Steve at Jul 30, 2009 09:28 AM |
The problem with putting all your eggs in the basket of a "shared vision" is that it is impossible to imagine the entire "vanguard" (classically defined as militant workers adopting a radical analysis, vision and strategy) sharing the same vision, particularly in matters of detail (like a particular account of balanced job-complexes).
To either (a) define "vanguard" or "advanced" by reference to a particular analysis/vision/strategy or (b) to pin one's hopes for the future of the Left on convergence around one analysis/vision/strategy, is a recipe for sectarianism.
"The sect sees the justification of its existence and its point of honour not in what it has in common with the class movement but in the particular shibboleth which distinguishes itself from the movement" (Marx).
We have to start from an expectation that there will be debate on the Left and find ways to institutionalize and organize pluralistic debate and ongoing discussion, within a framework of joint struggle.
There are some who think that people should not form common political organizations with people who disagree on how many "spheres" there are in society or whether one account or another of "participatory planning" is best, but this is a recipe for a mode of radical politics that has already played itself out to no good effect in the 20th century: the tiny and doctrinaire micro-sect, proclaiming itself to be the "organized vanguard of the working class," but being taken seriously by no one but themselves.
*Sorry about the slow reply - I had no internet access last week * Hi Steve - I agree that "we have to start from an expectation that there will be debate on the Left and find ways to institutionalize and organise pluralistic debate and ongoing discussion, within a framework of joint struggle." In fact I would go further than that and argue that we should celebrate fee thinking and dissent as long as we also recognise that in the end we need to settle on a common plan of action. Is there something in my essay that makes you think that I think otherwise?
Re: Popular Vision and VanguardismBy Polson, Rufus at Jul 22, 2009 10:11 AM |
I found this article quite compelling, and the more so because it got me to thinking about "The tyranny of structurelessness" by Jo Freeman. Her position was that in the absence of formal structures, organizations and groups would end up with informal ones dominated by strong personalities (likely ones with class, race or gender privilege), and that these informal structures, while not very visible, would tend to be anything but democratic--those who rocked the boat would be shunned or hectored until they shut up or left.
It seems to me that this feeds into the discussion of vanguardism. Frankly it seems likely that there are going to be vanguards whether they realize and admit that's what they are, or not. If that's the case, it may be wise for them to confront that position precisely so that they can plan their organization to avoid the abuses and counterproductive approaches vanguards are prone to.
I think that in addition to shared vision, it's also important to include the mainly Anarchist insight that revolutionaries should organize the way they want society to be. That is touched on and I think implicit in the article, but deserves more emphasis. You could perfectly well have a vanguard group that agreed on a highly libertarian vision but had decided that democratic centralism or something was necessary "for the moment"; that seems to be precisely what some of the repressive vanguards mentioned in the article have done. This kind of false pragmatism must be rejected.
Couldn't agree more, Rufus. In fact your comment reminded me of a beautiful (though perhaps overstated) quote from the writer Ignazio Silone. The fact that was writing in 1939 might explain the tenor...
People can agree on vision but disagree on strategyBy Wetzel, Tom at Jul 20, 2009 12:38 PM |
hi Mark,
I guess I'm not clear why you think "developing shared vision" is the solution to the past weaknesses in practice of organizations of the conscious political minority. You mention the example of the FAI in the Spanish revolution. They were not lacking in "shared vision." They were able to get the large CNT labor federation to adopt a fairly detailed "vision" at its May 1936 congress in Zaragossa...a vision they called "libertarian communism."
This shared vision did not prevent the FAI falling apart at the crucial moment. In Sept-Oct 1936 the anarcho-syndicalist movement was under growing pressure due to competition from the rapidly growing Communist Party which wanted to rebuild a conventional hierarchical state via the Republican Popular Front. The FAI broke apart on how to respond to that...some following Durruti's idea of the unions taking power, and some proposing to accept the Socialist Party's offer of junior partner status in the Popular Front government. This division occurred to a large extent due to different estimates of what was feasible at the time, though things like audacity or lack thereof were a factor.
How would "shared vision" prevent this kind of tactical disagreement about the way forward?
Hi Tom – my essay attempts to address what I see as a major weakness within the revolutionary left (not all weaknesses, and not just anarchism). The split between the Marxists and the anarchists has greatly weakened any efforts for the radical-progressive transformation of society. We all know this and yet anarchists and Marxists seem intent on driving the wedge between themselves ever deeper – all whilst paying lip-service to shared values such as solidarity. I'm not arguing that the development of shared vision would eradicate tactical choices like the one you highlight with Durruti / Popular Front. However I do feel that such choices need not result in splits - as they have in the past. I think that the development of shared vision creates the possibility of such strategic choices becoming complimentary rather than contradictory. I believe this because our shared vision would inform our strategy - thus ironing out many inconsistencies. I should acknowledge, however, that such an approach does require a revolution within the revolutionary left – something that is some what ironically difficult to bring about. Neither am I arguing that any vision would address this problem. To be of any use our vision needs to be well conceived. It needs to be compelling and generate confidence in people. You mention libertarian communism as an anarchist vision but in my experience of debating with LibCom's here in the UK they can not even answer basic questions about what a post-capitalist classless economy might look like. If we are to avoid history repeating itself what I think we need is a new organisation of revolutionary leftists committed to transcending the Marxist / anarchist divide. A good starting point for this, in my opinion, would be the development of shared vision. Luckily for us this process has already begun – we just need to get more people involved on an international scale and to formalise a process.
Re: Popular Vision and VanguardismBy Albert, Michael at Jul 20, 2009 08:24 AM |
Hi. I find this essay very compelling and useful - but it leaves me wanting more.
When you say "vanguard party" non pejoratively, I assume you mean by the label some kind of organization of people who, after all, are differently motivated and aware than other people and one hopes in a positive and exemplary, and thus a "vanguard" way. Then you are saying, I think, that unequal and diverse development of views and commitments is both inevitable and okay. What is bad is to have people with innovative views work together in an elitist fashion that creates a top down outcome. And I agree. What is good, then, is for such people to work together in a way that enlarges participation and creates a self managing outcome. And I agree again.
But what does this organization of folks with shared vision and strategy look like?
Perhaps you will do a second Reimagining Society Essay - imagining a viable and worthy organization - and its features. I think that such a piece would be a nice contribution!
Hi Michael - I was working on a second essay that attempts to address the very issues you raise. Unfortunately, however I was not able to finish it in time to meet the deadline. Perhaps I could continue working on it as the project unfolds and post it later as a general reply to feedback?
Very insightfulBy Emersberger, Joe at Jun 20, 2009 13:43 PM |
Your ideas seem obvious enough AFTER you spelled them out. Very sensible analysis. I'll make use of it in a project I am working on.
Thanks Joe - I look forward to (hopefully) reading about your project efforts here at Z. Stay in touch! |
Re: Popular Vision and VanguardismBy George, Justin at Jun 02, 2009 19:36 PM |
Hi Mark,
I enjoyed your article, I would have liked to have heard how you position PPS efforts so as to avoid falling into a vanguardist role in the negative/Leninist sense.
Implicitly I would assume that due to the strategic vision of a participatory society this allows PPS efforts to act in a conscious raising manner while avoiding the confusion of previous anarchist efforts. Does PPS UK make any conscious efforts to ensure that this is maintained for example? So as to avoid be the spokespeople or leaders of a participatory movement rather than merely advocates etc.
I ask as it seems like a fine line to walk especially when starting out as to trying to determine the right 'voice' or 'stance' in advocating and pushing for participatory practices.
Hi Justin - I can't speak on behalf of PPS-UK as an organisation because I am only one of its members. Also PPS-UK is still in its early stages of developing. There are people in different parts of the UK initiating local chapters and projects. If you visit our forum (www.ppsuk.org.uk) you will see that there is also a lot of discussion on how local chapters interact and make decisions at the National level. What I think I can say is that whatever decisions we make on these issues they will be informed by participatory vision. So our vision informs our organisational form and strategy. In turn this shared vision helps us stay on the right tracks whilst maintaining unity of action. The idea I put forward in my essay is that staying on the right track in this way will generate a dynamic between us (PPS-UK) and the general public that allows us to act as a vanguard but in a way that closes, rather than widens, the gap between the "conscious minority and the masses". I present this argument as a means of addressing fundermantal problems that have (and continue to) debilitated the revolutionary Left. |
Anchors to EditorBy Small, Brian at Jun 01, 2009 08:11 AM |
I was reading and learning from your article, but the editor kept coming up when I tried to go back and forth to your references. The html anchors and links bring up the blog/article zspace editor for some reason. Nice writing though. I'm still digesting - sorry for not yet being able to make a more productive, strategic comment.
Hi Brian - it's probably best to report any technical problems directly to the Z staff. That aside thanks for your encouraging feedback - have you had any further thoughts on my article? |


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This is on the black face between Slippery Nipple and Undertow (right-leaning dihedral). Climb up fun plates to a stopper crux climbing through a blank section. Reach the crux plate, then continue on jugs to the anchors at 70 feet.
Left of the cable marking the start of Slippery Nipple is a blank face above a perfect belay rock.
5 bolts to two bolt anchor.
This route would be a classic if not for the hard to clip crux bolt and almost impossible crux slab moves.
Agreed, the bolt in the middle of the plate sucks/impossible to clip till you've gained the top of the plate. It would be better placed lower so you could clip then attempt the low percentage, no foot move through the big plate. Hard climb, we guessed grade, couldn't stick the crux sequence.
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Your characterizations, expressions and gestures are superb. Love the subtle colors, feels like you're in a cafe. Worth a 5 even if it's not for me.
great on that shirt. $5
I wonder what they're talking about, looks like something serious. :)
I love the long necks and how things look bendy. I also really like that these look like real people and nothing like a lot of the other designs with women.
Its totally the mad hatter and alice. I like it.
The one with the wavy hair looks like the actress in 'Ground Hogs Day' with Bill Murry, what is her name? Anyways, I love what you have done here and the use of such minimal colors are, oh so smart.
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You don't always need fancy instruments to learn something about the stars. Sometimes, your eyes will do just fine.
An example is Spica, the brightest star of Virgo, which is quite near the Moon tonight. If you look at the star carefully, you'll see that it's basically white, with a slight hint of blue. That color tells you that Spica is very hot -- thousands of degrees hotter than the Sun.
Spica is actually two stars that are quite close together. But the stars have about the same surface temperature, which means they have the same color.
A star's color is a direct indication of its surface temperature. The coolest stars look reddish orange, while the hottest look blue. The Sun is somewhere in the middle, so it shines yellow-white.
The temperature can reveal a few other things about a star, too. Blue stars, for example, are not only hotter on the outside, they're hotter inside than most other stars. That's because the stars are more massive. Their gravity squeezes them tightly, heating them up and causing them to "burn" their nuclear fuel at a faster rate. So these stars will live shorter lives than less-massive stars, which have cooler interiors.
Of course, to learn a lot about the details about stars, you need those fancy instruments. But you can get a general idea about them just by looking.
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Solentiname Solidarity Alliance, with the support of Elena's close family and friends, has established a memorial fund to honor the life of Elena Bright Shapiro. The Alliance is incredibly honored to be involved in creating a living memory of Elena in Solentiname Nicaragua. It gives her family peace to know that dance lessons are being provided in Elena's name to continue her commitment to dance and their family's personal ties to Nicaragua.
The Elena Bright Shapiro Memorial Fund will be sponsored by the Solentiname Solidarity Alliance which will administer the collection and distribution of donations under its charter as a 501 C-3 (awaiting final approval) nonprofit organization. Funds collected will be managed by a committee of family and friends to assure that all funds are used directly for the objectives in the Fundacion de Baile Elena Bright Shapiro.
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Thanks! Much better now. Will you release server code?
I think there need ability to share one window (even not active) instead of desktop
on 16-07-2012 09:57 AM
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smallgaffer escreveu:Great app, can watch Twitch Tv , play some minecraft, then shut off the PC in bed!
Only thing, needs button remapping , like make X be spacebar and all, I know the app is 30% done, so it'd probably be there in the final version
Good job
If you want to change Space so you can use it in games you can just remap the game keys (in the game control options, or launcher depending on the game) by pressing the buttons you want on the Vita through the app.
Great idea..... Finally i'm playing MW3 on Psvita, its lag a little bit and its difficult play with vita on an fps but its' works..... epic.... O_O
on 16-07-2012 09:59 AM
I got max 58fps when no images change on the screen, i got a constant 30fps on minimal rez with 40% quality, with higher quality or resolution i have between 15-30fps.
But, this is directly on the vita device, if i make same test with playstation mobile simulator i got all the time constant 30fps (with an 60fps in game original streaming).
My question is, do you think this is possible to have 60fps on playstation mobile simulator (with an 60fps in game original streaming) ?
And do you think you have "much" margin to optimizing your code to achieve 60fps or you think it will anyway not possible with the following ps suite limitations ?
on 16-07-2012 03:44 PM
I did a VIDEOTUTORIAL to install the program visit here:
on 16-07-2012 05:54 PM
How do you get the mouse to work for some games?
All it does is keep the mouse cursor there.
on 16-07-2012 06:33 PM
any ideas about my problem? ps vita remote desktop works well, but the vita remote server programme crashes after some minutes open. and if i'm playing a game, i lose the progress, it's annoying.
thanks in advance, and seriously, great work with this app. without the described error, it would be the best app in all time.
on 16-07-2012 06:36 PM
is possible to integrate the windows RDP protocol without the need for a client server on separate machine would be gained much more quality.
on 16-07-2012 09:18 PM
Here is my video of this app, running a PS2 Emulator quite well. Although I wouldn't say it's fully playable.
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"Only Decent People," examines the fraught relations between the country's Jewish population and other minorities.
AMSTERDAM - The dreamy expression of a child at a chocolate factory slowly spreads across Geza Weisz's handsome face as he watches the quivering breasts and buttocks of young black women dancing around him at an Amsterdam nightclub.
The scene appears in "Only Decent People," a dark and provocative Dutch-language film that examines the fraught relations between the country's Jews and other minorities and stars Weisz, a Jewish Amsterdammer and a major movie star in Holland.
Based on a 2009 best-selling novel by the Dutch Jewish author Robert Vuijsje, the film was the second most popular in Holland last year, drawing 350,000 viewers in more than 100 theaters - a substantial number in a nation of 16 million.
But its stereotypical depictions of Moroccans, Jews and black Surinamese have drawn intense criticism in a country where the lessons of colonialism and the Holocaust have instituted a strict standard of political correctness - a standard that some say only a Jewish artist could breach.
"If 'Only Decent People' were written by someone who was not Jewish or Surinamese, it would've have been seen as pure racism," said Bart Wallet, a non-Jewish historian and expert on Dutch Jewry. "It is met with greater understanding because Robert Vuijsje is a Jewish man who has a Dutch Afro-Surinamese partner."
In the film, Weisz plays a rebellious and dark-complexioned David Samuels, the only son of affluent Jewish intellectuals who endures discrimination because he looks like a Moroccan. Estranged from both the Jewish community and the wider Dutch society on account of his looks, David embarks on a quest for black lovers that leads him to witness not only violence and promiscuity among Holland's black underclass, but also the racist attitudes of his Jewish friends.
The film traffics freely in racial stereotypes: blacks are lazy and greedy; whites are unhygienic; Jews are slave traders; Moroccans are violent. Such sentiments, combined with the film's depiction of group sex and borderline rape, helped make "Only Decent People" a commercial success, but they also brought latent prejudices to the fore - bolstering the claims of critics who have argued that the film fosters rather than critiques Dutch racism.
Since its release, Vuijsje has been the target of a death threat and been denounced by members of Holland's black community. One black artist rehashed centuries-old claims of Jewish complicity in the slave trade.
"The film's popularity made them feel uncomfortable in a country which celebrates such messages," said Anousha Nzume, a black activist and artist, referring to Holland's 500,000-member black community, roughly two-thirds of whom are immigrants from the country's former South American colony of Suriname.
Given its strong Jewish credentials -- the film was financed by the Abraham Tuschinkski Fund, which was named for the late Jewish owner of a chain of theaters in the Netherlands -- the Jewish community has treated the film as its own. This month, the social action arm of the Dutch Jewish Community, the JMW, organized a special screening for its members, complete with a Q&A session with Vuijsje and Weisz at a Touschinski theater.
But the film had a much broader appeal, which may owe to its exhaustive exploration of racial relations and class differences in Holland. By following a Jewish resident of a white neighborhood who looks like an Arab and lusts for blacks, the film took audiences into the often unseen precincts of Holland's minority communities.
"The commotion about the book and the film is partly because they stop short of deconstructing stereotypes," Wallet said. "They go through them, tell them as jokes. Some feel that this affirms the stereotypes and thereby undermines Dutch society's aspiration for greater tolerance."
Vuijsje, whose book generated significant discontent when it was published, acknowledges that racist stereotypes abound in the film, but argued that refraining from portraying black people negatively would have been racist itself, implying that that they're "too weak" to be objects of ridicule. And he notes that in Suriname itself, tickets to see the film reportedly were sold out for weeks.
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The film also revives unspoken resentments over the role of Dutch Jews in the slave trade. In one scene, the mother of one of David's black girlfriends confronts him over his ancestors' role in enslaving the Surinamese. David responds by telling her about their experiences during the Holocaust, resulting in a surreal debate about which was worse.
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"I wanted to play the part because I come from a background similar to that of the protagonist, but also because of how often I lose good parts to blonde, tall colleagues," Weisz said. "This time I knew they didn't stand a chance in hell against me."
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