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

dave dorkin ddorkin1 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 31 09:42:13 PST 2003


I'm not sure how many PENers are like that but the people you cite (whom I know as well) are quite a small group especially outside of NYC & invisible on campuses or in unions for the most part. The largest group in the US with some sort of relationship to Trotsky is the ISO & even then, it isnt that large & I dont see so much of the sky is falling attitude with its members.

On the other hand, I consistantly run into the other type of pathology whether I am doing grad school organizing, legal organizing, demonstrations or what have you. There are probably more of them on any one big campus than there are all the people you name. In other words, I dont need to go on a specialized list to find them, they come to me or anyone else and can be some of the biggest opponents of a sustained and organized politics Dave

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> dave dorkin wrote:
> >I dont know about anyone else, but the pathology I
> run into most on the left such as it is in the US is
the politics of difference and micro-resistance (ie ordering a Whopper at McDonalds) taken to the nth degree and not some sort of commie fatalism. What Doug describes inst very prevalent in my experience on campuses or in unions. Which left do you mean, Doug?
>
Hmm, well, many Trots ("the death agony of capitalism"). Patrick Bond. Boris Kagarlitsky. Many subscribers to the Progressive Economists Network (PEN-L). Louis Pr***ct and his posse. Off the top of my head. Doug

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