----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 5:50 PM Subject: Re: Populism
> Says the man who's always telling us not to write off the student
movement,
> or other struggles that don't fit orthodox Marxian analysis.
=========== 'Orthodox Marxian analysis' is a meaningless slogan in the 21st century. Let's be playfully polysemic and encyclopaedic on this one....
>
> By the way, Goodwyn book is wonderful not only as history of
populism, but
> as handbook for how to build successful social movements. He "gets"
the
> ingredients of successful organizing better than most historians.
======== There's the rub. It's not a question of the 'best' analysis of collective action, but how to do it from where one is in history that is the question.
Ian