If you truly care about solving an issue, base your identity not on your opposition but on the vision of a future where you’ve solved it.
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(A future where your group/movement no longer needs to exist.)https://twitter.com/aral/status/803906254905245696 …
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Just curious, Aral. Is that how you see
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Exactly. We exist with the hope that we won’t have to exist in the future. (Or that we can be part of a better mainstream.)
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Sincerely wishing you success in the endeavour!
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Only if the drive of that group is profit.
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Not necessarily; identity itself is a very strong motivator.
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You're right.
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This often happens in resistance movements, which morph into organised crime after they “win” (i.e., Sicilian mafia, Irish paras)
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“Parklife!” Sorry! Couldn’t resist… :)
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@JacobinoEnBici@aral pues a nosotras nos encantaría disolvernos -
¡Ojalá pudieseis disolveros! De momento y mientras tanto, seguid trabajando así!!!
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Anti Racists, anti Poverty, Socialists, Democracy lovers, Global Warming campaigners, SJWs and Labour all share this characteristic.
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That may explain why certain political groups blather on about "class" as if it were the cause of all our problems. It's a boogeyman.
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sorry but "by definition" no. only true if the group members have incentive to group's sustained existence. thus not by defn
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you mean like pharmaceutical companies? ;-)
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One could add Lenin’s “withering away of the state” to this as a grim joke
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also, every organisation’s implicit first imperative is self-perpetuation
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