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Re: [ox-en] Re: [ox] Theses about the relation between the Oekonux project and the remaining world



Hi Per!

Yesterday Per I Mathisen wrote:
On 7 Oct 2003, Rich Walker wrote:
I think Attac is rather different from Oekonux - for instance in the
breadth of its topic.

Which is, in your view, broader?

Thanks for the question :-) ! On first thought I would have said it is
broader. But on second thought I'm not so sure any more ;-) .

I was at an ATTAC workshop at the London Social Forum last weekend. I
would say that, if they were representative of that movement, then they
differ from almost all the others that were there in having a buy-in to
an underlying political/philosophical platform, and that they believe
small reforms to capitalism are "all" that is needed.

There are a lot of different people, from different political viewpoints,
participating in Attac, but there is a sense of convergence around some
points of political points of agreement, more than just a few bullet
points a political action program. Attac is first and foremost an
organisation that works for social justice by means of 'small' reforms of
the existing system. However, this does not mean by any means that
everyone participating in Attac see these 'small' reforms as an end-point,

Yes. I think the network idea I outlined some mails ago perfectly fits
what you describe. IMHO any successful attempt to make Attac a
"revolutionary organization" would immediately destroy what Attac was
able to build up.

but many of us believe the battle for such 'small' reforms to be a process
of educating the public that another vision of the world is possible,
desirable and that not everything is hopeless in face of the neoliberal
juggernaut.

I value Attac for exactly that point very much. *Finally* a movement
again which is able to put up "Another world is possible!" again. In
these days this is a revolutionary act indeed.

For Oekonux it is easy to amend "Another world is better!" ;-) .


						Mit Freien Grüßen

						Stefan

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