>
>Chuck Munson wrote:
>
>>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>>>
>>> At 06:28 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>> >Oh yeah? So why are so many of today's activists the offspring of 60s
>>> >activists?
>>>
>>> Perhaps because so many 60s activists became respectable members of the
>>> establishment.
>>
>>We all know that this claim isn't true. Only a few activists sold out.
>
>But that's not the way it seemed in The Big Chill! Better to defend
>land rapers than real rapists, and all that.
>
>A lot of those activists became public interest lawyers, union
>organizers, radical preachers, politicized academics, and people with
>ordinary jobs who make lots of trouble in their spare time. There so
>much a part of the American political landscape that it's hard to
>notice them. Evidently Wojtek has overlooked them.
>
>Doug
Joseph Seymour in a recent discussion in Workers Vanguard on the new left and liberalism makes the argument that since World War II, most radicals that have left their parties, CPUSA, SWP, New Left, in so far as they have remained politically active, have entered the Democratic Party, and formed caucuses (such as Black Caucus in Congress) to try to pressure the Democratic Party to the left from the inside, similar to the way the NAACP, ISO, WWP, Greens, union organizers, public interest lawyers try to pressure the DP from the outside. And the result, the New Democrat, a DP moving to the right.
As Rose Luxembourg said a hundred years ago, the decisive principle in party building is between reform or revolution. It still remains the same today.
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