-
This language from Arce—"our errors as the MAS" "redirect [reconducir] the process of change"—is straight from the critical, organic tradition within the Bolivian left grassroots. @LaRazon_Bolivia/1318049936647344131
-
Flashback to 2010 when a gathering of social movements urged the movement to "reconducir the process the of change" when major cracks were first beginning between them and Evo's government. (from _The Sovereign Street_ / sovereignstreet.org)
-
The underlying ethic at play, what I call "organic grassroots ethics" obliges leaders to listen to the grassroots base, face them, and carry out their wishes. The political innovation of the MAS was to bring this ethic from grassroots orgs into a political party.
-
Along the way, they became tainted by what the organic ethic calls the vices of "the political," but there was always room for critique according to organic grassroots values. (from "Binding leaders…" woborders.blog/2018/07/25/binding-leaders/ )
-
This, from David Choquehuanca in September, is how organic grassroots leaders justify and promise a change of course. @CarwilBJ/1318188935412125704