Dear ppi subscribers, I'm in a bit of a quandry over list posting policy. The old cyberjournal policy was lower traffic and included more commentary from your friendly editor, my humble attempt to add some perspective to the news of the day. The new ppi policy has been higher traffic, with a lower percentage of editorial comments. The idea here is for ppi to be like a newspaper or a wire service, with a wider range of quality material, from which each reader (or re-publisher) can pick and choose what's of interest and discard / ignore the remainder. People have responded to the ppi concept by sending in an increasing volume of very interesting material. I'm not sure whether to increase the ppi traffic still further, or to keep a lid on it. I'd welcome feeback from subscribers. You can be sure in any case that postings will continue to be highly selective. One possibility would be to relaunch a separate cyberjournal list which would receive a subset of the ppi postings, particularly the ones I write or comment on. ppi subcribers would receive everthing, and one or two each day would also go to cyberjournal. Comments welcome. rkm •••@••.••• http://cyberjournal.org With their neoliberal revolution, the capitalist elite have broken their two-centuries bond with the Western middle class. It is this implicit bond which has made Western imperialism so powerful, and which has made revolutions in the West infeasible. Now that the bond is broken the middle classes are beginning to suffer along with everyone else, and this changes the demographics of revolutionary potential in a profound way. For the first time since the era of western "democracy" began, there is the possibility of constructing a _majority coalition around the goal of systemic change, overcoming corporate hegemony, and estab- lishing a new societal paradigm. When you're in the majority, and you have the vote, then you don't need to throw bottles. You can take the high ground. You can win peacefully. -rkm to reaissance-network, 22 May 1998
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