Mass Movements and "The Left"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 27 13:31:41 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


>But in all that literature there is not one single word on the subject
>of how marxists should _start_ a mass movement.

And who said that was a goal? There are plenty of movements, though how mass they are is subject to debate. Even in the dismal U.S. we've got the globokids, unions, greens, community organizers, etc. I don't always like their analysis and wish more of them would act in common. But it's not a matter of creating a movement ex nihilo.

Doug



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