I haven't been to any meeting against Genetic Engineering, but I bet oppositions to it are a mixed bag, ranging from those who are opposed to generic engineering under capitalist control to those who are opposed to genetic engineering, period, just like the anti-war movement, the environmentalist movement, the feminist movement, the labor movement, and other social movements on the left. You wouldn't get anywhere trying to start a movement that consists purely of individuals who are opposed to generic engineering under capitalist control but would favor it under hypothetical post-capitalist circumstances. When you realize that any social movement (especially in its infancy) is inevitably a mixed bag (with lots of nuts in it), what is to be done? Frederick Douglass was "convinced that it was duty of all anti-slavery men to promulgate their principles among the Free Soilers so that gradually 'a true Free Soil Party' could be established. 'We must go and lead the Free Soilers,' he told his audience at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society a month after the election" in 1848 (_Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writing_, ed. Philip S. Foner, adopted and abridged by Yuval Taylor, Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999). -- Yoshie
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