>From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Top down or bottom up?
>Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 10:18:20 -0500
>
Avoiding the
>issues, on the other hand, by necessity will lead to reactionary politics
>in
>the hinterland. How do you expect people to be progressive when you never
>talk to them about progressive issues? Or do you not want them to be
>progressive?
Leo Panitch has made the point that the involvement of urban gay groups in support of the coal miners' strike in England created a vast change in their (miners') attitudes towards feminism and gay rights.
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