tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260526278343305104.post5032802723291278439..comments2023-09-28T06:50:19.573-04:00Comments on views from montparnasse: "it's a party": last thoughts for nowbrenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770376824847505367noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260526278343305104.post-39585335694885423692008-12-16T11:49:00.000-05:002008-12-16T11:49:00.000-05:00Dear BrentI was interested to read your comments. ...Dear Brent<BR/><BR/>I was interested to read your comments. I am an activist from the NPA in the South West of France. If you are interested to read my blog, you can find debates and news about the NPA. I am also in the process of writing in English an article for anglophone activists across the world, which will be posted on my blog in early january. You can find my blog at http://johnmullenagen.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/>JohnsJohn Mullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04936937247932651511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260526278343305104.post-202824040623708682008-11-29T18:55:00.000-05:002008-11-29T18:55:00.000-05:00Thank you Leo and Eric for your comments, critical...Thank you Leo and Eric for your comments, critical, supportive, and informative. I would love to continue observing this NPA process as a participant--hélas-- but will do the best I can at a distance.brenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770376824847505367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260526278343305104.post-88536833058830076162008-11-29T15:25:00.000-05:002008-11-29T15:25:00.000-05:00i think that autogestation (as an idea, as well as...i think that autogestation (as an idea, as well as a word) has a long history in france itself (Proudhon?). in fact, i think you could go so far as to say that there has been franco-italian collective thinking on bottom-up labor organization at least since the first years of the 20th century. <BR/><BR/>embarrassing about this is the fact that Mussolini came from this very franco-italian syndicalist-socialist world. which is not to say, with leo, that such utopias always end in chaos and blood. the market economy is a utopia too, after all. politics can certainly be the art of the possible, but if that is the case then we need to think a great deal harder than we sometimes do about what is, in fact, possible. <BR/><BR/>hence the value of this blog. i have greatly appreciated it.Eric Brandomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248409387730547907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260526278343305104.post-51767281456858369852008-11-29T09:01:00.000-05:002008-11-29T09:01:00.000-05:00Brent,this strikes as just another nice utopia lik...Brent,<BR/>this strikes as just another nice utopia like we have witnessed since (put your date here).<BR/>I am afraid that like ALL previous utopias it would end in chaos and blood.<BR/>Let's remember that Politics is the Art of the Possible, the domain of the realists, not the realm of the day-dreamers.<BR/>Have a safe journey home.Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633218595911638735noreply@blogger.com