[lbo-talk] Toward an Anti-Colonial/Anti-Imperial Movement Re: Arguments and alternatives

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 8:00 PM +0000 4/8/03, loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:
>The fact is, you know, that while the Bush administration was 
>presenting its  own 'cafeteria' of rationales for the war (I rather 
>like the metaphor), so was  the anti-war movement.  All of the 
>'dishes' you recommend as part of the ideal  anti-war diet were to 
>be found on the menu and on the podium of the major  demonstrations, 
>including ANSWER's.  The 'unity' you oppose was a means of  bringing 
>together people who opposed the war for different reasons into the 
>same places at the same times.  Why was this "No war! for various 
>reasons" idea so bad?

The "No war! for various reasons" idea was practically unavoidable, 
as there was no coherent left-wing organization that united most 
Americans who opposed the war.  Now that the war has begun, and the 
US soldiers are in Baghdad, though, some of the anti-war arguments 
offered before the war began no longer make sense.  Either we will be 
able to build an anti-colonial/anti-imperial movement out of loose 
networks of anti-war activists, capable of eventually attracting at 
least three quarters of blacks (and about a third of whites and a 
half of the rest) willing to fight domestic exploitation and police 
repression, or the anti-war movement will peter out.  It's time for 
clarification.
-- 
Yoshie

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