One of the great comforts of leftist organizing has been realizing that not only do I not know everything - about economic history, about coordinating a group, about what people other than me want - I don't NEED to know everything. If I'm working with a bunch of good comrades, having an open discussion, and committing to a solution that we reach by consensus, then we'll figure something out. The number of times I've had my mind completely changed on an issue by someone speaking in a meeting is astonishingly high, is a good sign of my ability to grow, and would be offensively alien to the Randian I used to be.
Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski.
One of the great comforts of leftist organizing has been realizing that not only do I not know everything - about economic history, about coordinating a group, about what people other than me want - I don't NEED to know everything. If I'm working with a bunch of good comrades, having an open discussion, and committing to a solution that we reach by consensus, then we'll figure something out. The number of times I've had my mind completely changed on an issue by someone speaking in a meeting is astonishingly high, is a good sign of my ability to grow, and would be offensively alien to the Randian I used to be.