[lbo-talk] Building a Movement That Outlasts the Occupation

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] Anybody But Kerry the Dole of 2004?
>Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu, Thu May 6 14:47:58 PDT 2004
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>The Anybody But Bush crowd -- aka the Chicken wing of the Democratic 
>Party -- are a fickle bunch.
>
>I think it is time for those of us who (a) are active in the 
>anti-war movement _and_ (b) have not joined the ABB stampede on the 
>left to turn our attention elsewhere. The questions it seems to me 
>we should be exploring are as follows.
>
>1. Most immediately, how can we maintain the organizational 
>structure at least of the anti-war movement during the remainder of 
>this quadrennial u.s. vacation from politics? This will require some 
>thought since mass organizations (even embryonic ones) tend dissolve 
>if they are not active in some way, and while leftists for the most 
>part remain hypnotized by the election  this will not be easy.
>
>2. Assuming that the U.S. has lost the war and will eventually 
>withdraw (unconditionally but probably with some facesaving 
>gesture), how can the anti-war movement prepare (both through 
>planning and the nature of our activity) to shift from the emphasis 
>on "peace" to an emphasis on "justice" (words conjoined both in 
>local groups and in one national coalition), and build on our 
>victory rather than dissolve?
>
>Whether Kerry or Bush wins the election will have an important 
>effect on our efforts after November, but our basic concerns will be 
>as listed here I believe.
>
>Carrol

Somewhat belated, but here's a response to the questions that you 
raise: "Building a Movement That Outlasts the Occupation," 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/05/building-movement-that-outlasts.html>. 
I use Max's call to fight the right-wing scapegoating of the 
rank-and-file soldiers and go after the biggest war criminals of all 
as the starting point of the post.
-- 
Yoshie

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