by The editorial board.
The world is too complex to think that we can derive correct revolutionary strategy, even mainly from our own localized direct experience.
Traversing international relations, shifting alliances of social forces on a domestic and international scale, and expanding political reach on an ever widening landscape over widening territory, indicate that our strategy will develop mainly from learning from experience that is indirect.
This is one of the reasons why it so important that the many localized projects happening all over the country and the world, the multitude of radicalized cohorts and projects of resistance find ways to link up, coordinate, and learn from each other’s experiences.
The vast majority of experience and knowledge an individual attains in their lifetime derives from indirect sources and revolutionary politics and developing strategy is not different.
This does not mean that we do not organize in local spaces and in a local context. It simply implies that the array of social forces that must come together in order to challenge the current social system on both the national and international level is such that the local work we are carrying out will not in and of itself provide us with the strategy we need for dismantling and overthrowing the system as a whole.
Linkages and learning from various projects, the conglomeration of political experiments and taking account of the diversity of social forces in motion and that must be aligned and coordinated is necessary for an overarching view that can pinpoint the main weaknesses of this system and attack at those weak points.
It is not a question of whether to engage in local projects, we obviously need to. It is rather a question of understanding what projects demonstrate the potential to inflict the most damage at vital points in the system that can weaken it and allow for a Gramscian move toward war of maneuver or in Maoist terms an advance toward strategic offensive taken against the class enemy.