David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 5 15:19:39 PST 2002


Nathan Newman wrote:


>Ridiculous-- the "hard core lefties" don't fit the bringing out large
>numbers category. Unions and the mass membership groups do, when they
>choose -- see the Solidarity Day, Millenium March, and Webster abortion
>marches for the scale they can do when they choose. Most of the time they
>don't, because they are skeptical of big rallies except at dramatic moments.

Who, unions? They don't like large rallies for the very reason they can be effective - they scare the ruling class if they're sufficiently militant and disruptive. Kind of like Al Gore in Florida, who preferred litigation to agitation.

Doug



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