HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu May 2 11:24:07 PDT 2002


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >There ought to be a way to organize rallies without many (if any)
> >speakers, but those (like you) who merely bellyache about how terrible
> >this&that is are wasting their time and making themselves look foolish.
> >If you want it different, go out and organize. If you don't want to do
> >that, focus on the people at the rally, not on what's going on up at the
> >platform.
>
> That's the way to build a movement - bore & insult people. The
> bourgeoisie couldn't ask for better enemies.
>
> Doug

So the only way to build a movement is to sit on the sidelines and carp at the people who are building it because they didn't obey the dogmatic orders you sent them by mental telepathy.

Carrol



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