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

[dave dorkin]

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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