[lbo-talk] Where's the African-American antiwar movement?

[Shane Taylor]

Carrol Cox wrote:
>As far as I know, no leftists are doing post-mortems, just a few
>hangers-on who want to hi-jack the anti-war movement for the
>benefit of the reactionaries in the DP.

kelley wrote:
> everyone here who complains about the antiwar movement
> needing to be advanced because its criticisms aren't radical
> enough wants to co-opt it for their own political aims.
> 
> when a black bloc organizes to critique the limitations of the 
> anti-globalization mmovement it wants to advance the 
> anti-globalization movement's self-understanding. when we
> discuss ways to criticize "support the troops" slogans, then we
> want to push the antiwar movement beyond its current self-
> understanding.
> 
> it's time to say, "so what?"

Yep.  Someone gets flustered, puffs up, and decries you for having ends
that others _disagree_ with, and having the audacity to _organize_ to
acheive them!  :-O  It's a betrayal of the American People(TM).

In other words, it remindes me of this (previously fwd'd to the list):

"'Agenda' is the current swear word -- say anyone has such a thing and he
or she is instantly disqualified from expressing an opinion.  Apparently
only the directionless or clueless are worth listening to."

-- Gary Wills

-- Shane

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