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Fiat and the Rev

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Subject: Fiat and the Rev
From: Steven Ray Pointer <pointesr@whitman.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:56:44 -0400

Comrades Shaw makes an excellent point about fiating a mechanism as 
opposed to the actual revolution.  The deliniation between fiat of a 
mechanism to change consciousness (i.e. MLM press) and fiating a change 
in consciousness itself is key to all "utopia" debates.  I believe that 
it is a fair and legitimate thing for Comrade Shaw to fiat Socialist 
Education as a counterplan this weekend at WWU.  (Or will it be MAO?  No, 
your cards are better on DemSoc ;)  This allows the negative to fiat 
their utopia of choice, and the affirmative to argue the transition 
story.  In fact, having to defend a particular mechanism opens the neg up 
to better transition answers, since the counterplan solvency now depends 
on the mechanism achieving a critical mass of consciousness.

Yes, Jeff, the revolution will go WHOOSH and spread like wildfire.  And 
knowing what I know of your soc files and the answers I have here, I'm 
going to get burned this weekend :( 

About to be beaten senseless with the Soc Stick,
Steve Pointer


Many thanks to Jordan Mills for showing us the way.

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