The Revolutionary's Dilemma.

Analytical philosophy is a creation by a specific part of the international burgeoise. It's roots can be found in Germany and Britain, with some American influence. While the last few decades have seen little progress in the major fields of analytical philosophy there are considerable gains and methods that have been discovered and that is too little employed by Marxists; far preferring the obscurantism of the continent to the sober senses of Britons.

Both major schools of philosophy are creations by the burgeoise or the petty burgeoise. The alienation that postmodernism describes is transcribed all over it's own narrative ironically enough. The blindness of analytical philosophy remains the same as the outdated liberalism that birthed it. However, in academia as in art theft is the better part of virtue. One of the many handy methods that was founded by analytical philosophy and which has since spread to other disciplines (political science for example) is the prisoner's dilemma.

I came to realize a while ago what an interesting tool it is to gauge perspectives in revolutionary changes, larger strategical ones as well as situations in demonstrations, debates or similar gatherings. Quite simply, the idea is that if a certain minority changes the odds through some action of theirs then the gain and resultant loss of some set of actions - say, a revolution - changes drastically. That is, it is dangerous to stick your head out, but if others do so first then you will be losing advantages that would be gained otherwise. A dedicated minority might then, at the right opportunity and at the right time, shift an entire prisoner's dilemma situation to one side or the other through concerted action.

Is this perhaps then an argument for Leninist vanguardism? I believe it may be. To organize group A, B and C to take it upon themselves and act so as to create a tenser situation probably needs a good deal of discipline and organization.

A word of warning towards the Dilemma is of course that fault that is so often found in analytical philosophy. It's primitive empiricism. Choices are not so clear as the Dilemma makes them out to be, ideological factors may entirely obscure most choices and their results.