[I presented this paper at a community meeting just before I quit. All I can say about that meeting is that people are not convinced to give up power and will struggle to retain it. I worked a long time on different arguments but almost not at all on oranizing people around these ideas. ]
We are supposed to be the opposite of capitalist corporations whose object is to serve themselves, or more correctly their owners. Being the opposite of the capitalist system means to serve the people who do the work. In order to tio this, we have to learn to work and think together with them. A problem is that those who are in the best position to be articulate about the rottenness of the system are also in the best position to absorb some of that rottenness into themselves. This rottenness is typified in a superior and competitive attitude toward other people. I think these attitudes are very strong, in you, Chuck. They make it very hard for people to work with you.
Your competitive attitude is demonstrated mainly at meetings. You are a fast thinker and afast and articulate talker. A person very confidant in your own ideas. However you are more interested in winning arguments than in dealing honestly with real poblems. This is also the reason you don't listen very well, and why you talk so much.
In general, you have a cold wall superior attitude which seems to be summed up in three dogmas. These dogmas are: (1) everyone should be equally responsible for everything; (2) that there is no objective basis on which to make decisions; (3) that in order to be cooperative, people should abandon their jobs in the capitalist system.
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