The movements
which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because
they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place.
I have had
with my friend Wes Jackson a number of useful conversations about the necessity
of getting out of movements - even movements that have seemed necessary and
dear to us -when they have lapsed into self-righteousness and self betrayal, as
movements seem almost invariably to do. People in movements too readily learn
to deny to others the rights and privileges they demand for themselves. They
too easily become unable to mean their own language, as when a “peace movement”
becomes violent. They often become too specialized, as if finally they cannot
help taking refuge in the pinhole vision of the institutional intellectuals.
They almost always fail to be radical enough, dealing finally in effects rather
than causes. Or they deal with single issues or single solutions, as if to
assure themselves that they will not be radical enough.
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