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[NAME] Jon [Reading] Politics of Self Organization and Lansing's critique of Marx
I appreciate Lansing's description of how this self-organizing system can be a basis of resistance, although I wonder about the political limitations of such a tactic. It would be interesting to get Lansing's critique not only Marx's writings on Asia and colonialism but also the writings on political strategy which are inextricably bound up with Marx's opposition to self-organization. For example, the dictatorship of the proletariat doesn't appear in the Communist Manifesto, but only in the 1850s, in the wake of post-1848 counter-revolutionary terror, and become more importance after the carnage in Paris in 1871. I understand that self organization is an important political and ethical tool, but I wonder if it doesn't run into problems when faced with the most bare, repressive, and violent type of state responses. Lansing seems to acknowledge this in a way when he says that this research could not have been published under Suharto.
When Knowledge Worlds Collide
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