Alinsky Re: [lbo-talk] productivity

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Aug 18 14:33:27 PDT 2004


snit snat wrote:
>
> At 01:26 PM 8/17/2004, Carrol Cox wrote:
> >For what it's worth, the Back-of-the-Yards organization in Chicago, the
> >archetypal Alinsky achievement, developed into an aggressively racist
> >organization existing mostly to defend residential segregation. Local
> >groups which do not have a national focus (or which are not subordinated
> >to groups which have such a national focus) go nowhere except to the
> >right or to the kind of thing Dwayne describes.
>
> "So whenever a community comes to me and asks me for help and says, "We're

O.K. I missed the first quote marks and thought the second started the quoting. Let's re-edit:

****** [Alinsky] So whenever a community comes to me and asks me for help and says, "We're.... ******

So, it still looks to me as though you letting Alinsky speak for you. That this is from an Alinsky interview may be relevant to a biographer of Alinsky (or to St. Peter at the Gates if there is a St. Peter at the Gates), but how is it relevant to discussion of what "the left" should do in 2006?

All my earlier comments still hold.

Carrol



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