Jamie Wardrop

1. George's rhetoric produces a reductive flatland, Newtonian (etc), construction of the human space, i.e., the simple binary notion that you don't concede "one inch of ground" or you do. In reality, all human interaction is paradoxical (as we are spirits not stuff), i.e., both binaries at the same time: (Zen/Taoist) meaning that you have to concede ground to not concede ground. Concretely the optimal strategy is to: 1. Completely oppose the fascist leadership while at the same love bombing the people who vote for them - at a macro level. 2. Encourage these voters to engage in the act of speech, listen to them, and reflect back what they say at a macro level - my research/experience on this is that 80% of these voters come round to the Left positions within about 3 minutes on the doorstep and 20 minutes in an assembly context. The upshot is that the far right will not be structurally defeated in the context of the elections but through a mass engagement with working class communities via deep canvassing and local community assemblies over a period of several years. But the meta reductive paradigm of the secular left cannot understand how this works because it cannot see the human as spirit but only as stuff. Meaning only power (as domination) and not love (as attention).