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The Relationship Between Structure and Agency in Political Struggles
I'm not sure that it's possible to say something general about that actually I think it depends on political context. The emphasis on the impersonal nature of the power of capital in my book does not entail that we shouldn't focus on like a specific person in concrete political struggles. My analysis is completely compatible with for tactical reasons focusing on very specific persons as class enemies and you know as a tactic to generate class hatred or whatever kinds of feelings we need to nourish in a concrete political struggle. But I don't think that we should derive political strategies from abstract theory. It's really important to be to formulate political tactics and strategies on the basis of concrete analyses of concrete situations to quote Lenin.