[lbo-talk] MWM, take 2

[Michael Dawson]

Here's my question:  Why not make the MWM a movement to generate a true MWM?
Why not spend a year or two recruiting enough people to actually put a
million workers in the street?  Now, that would be something I'd work
toward, especially if it partially targeted the AFL-CIO "leaders."

Instead, it'll bring still more ridicule onto the idea of a labor movement.

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Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] MWM, take 2

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sat Sep 25 08:59:06 PDT 2004:
>>Carrol Cox wrote:
>>>The thrust of the march is to measure commitment to non-electoral
>>>politics (i.e., real politics).
>>
>>You've said that before. It's almost certain that the turnout will 
>>be small, and the measurement of commitment will therefore be 
>>small. Do you really want to set yourself up for that?
>
>Supporting only what is already popular doesn't help us move US 
>politics to the left.

I agree. But present it as such, and not as a measurement of 
commitment. As any advance man knows, you pick a room too small to 
fit the expected crowd, so it looks like a great success. Carrol is 
setting himself up for guaranteed failure.

Doug
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