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dk---i don't feel any particular motivation to have this conversation again. i really don't--others may be more into it, so i'll let them play along. suffice it to say that i can imagine no circumstance under which we would have a common cause. revolutionary politics that are not retrograde, that are not based on recycling categories like "nation" and which do not entail a kind of collective flight back to an 18th century that never was as it is imagined ("strict construction" and all it entails) converge on a politics that i find anathema----an armed movement that originated from up inside these politics would put me in the strange position of having to think, and think quite hard, about whether to support the state in acting against it. i could go on about this, but there's no point.
thing is that were there a revolutionary movement that i would participate in, dk, i expect that it would top the Man on your hit list as soon as you found out about it.
so because the political viewpoints are so close to antithetical, i don't see us talking about the same things AT ALL when it comes to radical politics.
so there's no reason to accept the terms of your hypothetical situation.
i'll leave you to this now.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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