[lbo-talk] poverty draft

[Carrol Cox]

Without exception, every major victory the left has ever won, anyplace,
has been won through focusing on victimization of the masses, and then
_within_ the masses so mobilized, building a positive program. Speak
Bitterness sessions, in one form or another and under various labels
have been the heart and soul of all revolutionary movements that made
any progress at all.

Other approaches to left organizing are the daydreams of intellectuals
wouldn't know how to organize a family picnic.

Frederick Engels, _Condition of the Working Class in England_.

Carrol