[lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Thu Oct 30 10:06:56 PST 2003


On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> There are fewer of these people around than there are single-taxers.
>
> Warring against invisible opponents is the politics of fools

I don't want to fight them, but I do want to work around them.

The typical excuse I keep hearing for giving the WWP a headline role in the anti-war coalition is, "They already got the permits for all the good dates." Perhaps that's more a sign of how disorganized the rest of the left has become than anything else, and perhaps it'll go away if we do become better organized. I can't help thinking it's a pathetic excuse.

That still leaves the question of how to become better organized. A good start might be organizing anti-war activities on our own nickels, rather than shrugging and saying, "Oh, hell--let ANSWER do it."

At the demo here in Atlanta this spring, two people approached us.

One was someone from ANSWER, pushing their petition with total self-confidence.

The other was someone from (I believe) the Georgia Peace Coalition. The poor man looked like a whipped dog. When we were cool to his approach (we're here on a work assignment--it's not our home), he looked resignedly at us and said, "We're not with those people." I gather he'd had to explain that all afternoon long.

All the best,

John A

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