Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 12:40:08 +0100
From: Fiocco-AT-ccuws4.unical.it (Fiocco Laura)
Subject: Re: Need insight for welfare movement


>In a message dated 97-01-28 12:05:51 EST, you write:
>
>>
>>  cari compagni
>>
>>   Before this gets out-of-hand: why don't we try to make a distinction
>>  between tactical praxis, related to particular situations and goals, and
>>  strategical tools? What is coming out from the list is a composed reality
>>  where there is a wide spead rank of local fightings and peoples involved
>in
>>  them. "Need insight for welfare movement" was openen (I do not remember
>>  from whom: I was away when it started) to see what we could collectively
>>  put together to go farther each specific situation.
>>
>>  Emanuel brings us to the need of deeling with present and located fights.
>>  The risk is to transform a local possible issue into a strategy.
>>  The opposit is to refuse of running a fight because its content or
>>  immediate goal is supposed to be strategically wrong.
>>
>>  What about starting to see:
>>  - if the process attemping to reach ANY practical goal (related to peoples
>>  material and social needs, of course) can be define as a comunist strategy
>>  in itself, as far as it create a collective (persons linked by solidatity
>>  and friendship)
>>  - and consider as COMMON STRATEGY the capability of linking (instead of
>>  deviding) together theoretically and practicaly each movement?
>>
>>  Ciao Laura
>>
>Laura, if I read you right, then yes, I think I agree -- BUT, does one not
>need to attempt to bring ones understandings of history, struggles, politics,
>goals, etc., to the efforts to help particular struggles and to help in
>developing a common strategy out of  and through connections among struggles.
> My concern was in reading a reduction to the immediate with a view that the
>longer or strategic will just evolve. If we don't believe it will just
>evolve, then we have to apply knowledge --- theory -- to the particulars,
>which poses the questions, what theory and how applied?
>
>Monty
>
>
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Cari compagni,

I agree with Monty that any struggle doesn't evolve by itself and we need
to apply knowledge.

My issue went farther (Franco, that I read after I sent my message, put at
stake the same problem): we need to apply knowledge for what?
>From the stand point of the local group involved we could answer:to enlarge
the field of solidarity for empowering the group, so that its own goal is
achieved. This is not immediatly a communist behaviour, it is a democratic
behaviour (political demand).

When does it become communist? My answer (this is what I put into question)
is that it is a communist struggle when the main goal of any fight is to
produce the collective subject (WE: where -ME- can feel the powerness and
loveness of BEEING together).

If we start from here, to enlarge the field of solidarity means to enlarge
the collective subject. But this process is not just a quantitative
enlargement, it is a de-location (dislocazione) of the field of stuggle to
a higher level.

The new subject - constituted in this process - produces its own goals
which CAN'T be thought before its constitution. So the original material
goal of the local group (from where the fight stated), say to achieve a
dockers' coop, may be or not the goal of the new subject.

This means that
-in any case the original group empowers itself from the powerness of the
larger group, and through it may achieve its own goal;
- but it can't enlarge the field of the struggle pretending to impose to
the new subject its own material goal. The goals-in-process are produced by
the subject-in-process.

Of course the main practical difficulty relys on what each one have to do
for enlarging the field, starting from its own reality. And here theory
becomes strategical. But I think that what is important is to deel first
with the problem: enlarge the field for what porpuse?

Ciao, Laura

PS

Steve, what does casualisation means? Is it precarizzazione?





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