[lbo-talk] Bring Them Home Now: Leaflets & Website (from Stan Goff)

[Shane Taylor]

Jim Farmelant wrote:
> I would suspect that the decline of organizations like
> the CPUSA might have something to do with it.  As
> Carrol Cox likes to say, to speak of a left (or at least
> of an organized left) in the US is a bit ludicrous.
> Such a thing hasn't existed here for quite some time.

Actually, I think Justin was closest to the mark when he said Marxism as
a movement is dead <http://pulpculture.org/MarxAfterMarxism.html>. 
That's not to say that Marx or a myriad of 20th century Marxists are now
wholly irrelevant.

Of course by the measure of hammers and sickles on the horizon, the left
doesn't exist and isn't likely to be reincarnated, although undead
embarrassments like the WWP march on.

But the anti-war mobilization and the global justice movement, with their
overlapping currents of anti-capitalism, are some kind of left.  The form
of their organization is certainly open to dispute, but their existence
isn't.

-- Shane

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