> What Dennis, Nathan, Thomas Seay, me and others argue is not that one
> should abstain from attending but, draw, 'er, "lines of demarcation, "
> between cadre like Yoshie that work with and pressure other coalitions
> like UfPJ, to build a united front w/ such Stalinist formations, whose
> conception of socialism is what the young Marx called "barracks communism".
> Louis Fraina aka L. Corey, who Paul Sorvino portrayed in, "Reds." (see
> the excellent Paul Buhle biography), who wrote, "The Decline of American
> Capitalism, " and, "The Decline of the Middle Class, " which have been
> re- issued by Columbia Univ. Press ) , a founder of of one of the two
> main Communist parties that merged under guidance from the Comintern to
> form the CPUSA, was treated so shabbily by the CPUSA, that by the post
> WWII period he, in the pgs. of the Antioch Review, questioned directly
> whether the CPUSA s/b considered left at all, and not the expression of
> a crystallization of a new class bureaucratic state bourgeoisie.
Perhaps what we need is another way to call national and international days of anti-war protest, perhaps along the lines of People's Global Action or how the February 15th protests were organized. Why should we have to wait until ANSWER calls for a protest? Why should we settle for just going to ANSWER protests? In fact, isn't attending an ANSWER protest kind of like settling for a lover/partner/spouse when you could have something much hotter and gratifying?
I think most of us agree that we need something other than ANSWER. Annd UFPJ has turned into an authoritarian entryist coaltion run by the NGOs and big labor.
Or perhaps some of the commentators are right, that the anti-globalization movements are where the action should be at right now?
Chuck0