Tactics Over Strategy: Stan Goff on Socio-Political Transformation

Quite an interesting discussion between Stephen Boni and Stan Goff.

[ghionjournal.com]

(This strategic command cell, whoever that is, a military, a corporation, the Vatican, a political party, doesn’t matter, these groups are all strategic beings because what they’re trying to do is impose their will on an environment that they have separated from themselves by objectifying it. The world outside the strategic command cell is the object of their manipulations. It’s Cartesian. Strategists are self-isolated for the purpose of planning their strategy in which they position themselves as the subjects, the ones who act. Everything else in the environment that they want to control, those are the objects to be acted upon.)

In other words. We are objects that need to be controlled. The weapon being used against us is the main stream media.

(Thinking tactically, one of the things I advocate for is that we don’t try to form a party. Because the minute you do that, you get a centralized infrastructure that focuses on purely political objectives. You become a strategic entity. First, this new form drops work in progress and tries to tighten ideological control. Then it begins stifling members’ initiative. That’s what centralized institutions do. They crush initiative for the sake of keeping everyone on the same page. This is one of the reasons left organizations fail over and over again. They are all on about strategy this and strategy that. They talk like generals, but they don’t have an actual army.)

This is the very problem within the Green Party today. While the party is attempting to become a national party like in other countries, dictating a singular message, it has local elements statewide, countrywide, singularly financed that are pushing their own initiative creating strife in the party as a whole. Basically a majority of sects using the same party name that actually creates more chaos keeping it from unifying. Even though each of the platforms are relatively the same. And that's being successfully used against the party to keep it from gaining strength.

Although I'm quite not understanding Stan Goff's support for DSA (Democratic Socialist of America) either. Which I mentioned my disapproval of them earlier in another post, which I would think he would realize also.

(In actuality, the politics are drawn in behind local resiliency and re-localization efforts. But the political piece I do see, the political gamble is—if possible—to elect a social democratic government within four more years. Then pass some helpful legislation within 10 years—social democratic measures like guaranteed minimum income, single payer health care, public works jobs, and so forth.)

This is where the Green Party and SEP (Socialist Equality Party) also made good strides in the 2018 election cycle. More of this could help pull the Green Party into being a valid and stronger party if we can keep it going. I strongly stand behind the theory that we're never going to change the democratic party by adding a few people running under the DSA support from within that party. While also voicing support for the top democrats like they do once they're in. It's quite counterproductive! If not, a sham. Which leads me back to (Although I'm quite not understanding Stan Goff's support for DSA).

(What happened with the Sanders thing that surprised me is how it grew from when Sanders had his first press conference on a lawn with a dozen people. At the time, I said, this is nonsense. And I was proven wrong. What happened was, because none of us can see what’s really going on out there at scale, I didn’t realize the level to which the public’s grinding disappointment and anxiety was creating new political terrain. And so, it sort of burst out in the open with these two long-shot candidates from the right and the left.)

I have brought this up on a number of occasions. As I advocated for Sanders from late 2015 into the primary on facebook I seen a vast majority of different types of people, both by party affiliation and all age groups, looking for information on Sanders and means to switch parties to vote for him. It was personally, mentally, overwhelming to see the amount of people willing, wanting, needing to find a way to change our country. Which then became heartbreaking when he betrayed us all by obviously becoming part of the system he voiced opposition to, if not having possibly been a part of it all long. That system had no inclination of what was waiting in the background in support of a socialist entity with the fortitude to stand up and fight for them! And Sanders totally wasted it and our chances of fighting that system when he bowed to it without a fight or even voicing against what happened. Still silent today as he mocks us with another run within that very system as they voice against any means of a true socialist nature into it.