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> There's an essential difference between the union and Civil
> Rights movements and what leftists are trying to do today.
> Both unionism and Civil Rights were demands for the recognition
> and performance of liberal principles already acknowledged by
> the people, including the ruling class. So too feminism, if
> by feminism one means recognizing women as men with differently-
> shaped bodies who deserve the same rights to compete and
> succeed as other men. Anti-war, socialism, anarchism, communism
> and so forth are not part of liberalism. Therefore, the most
> likely strategic model for those who adhere to such beliefs
> is not going to be absorption by liberal institutions but
> something more profoundly subversive.
Indeed. For a related comment about this from an anarchist perspective, see:
Instead of a Primer http://www.infoshop.org/texts/primer.html
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INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE
An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."
(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).