[lbo-talk] Stop Labeling and Start Organizing!

[Carrol Cox]

During the Civil War the practice of the Red Army in China was to
release all prisoners of war. (Occasionally they recruited but usually
just released.) It was terribly demoralizing to the Nationalist armies.

The principle of organizing is to reach "All who can be united" NOW,
which becomes the basis for a process of Unity-Struggle-Unity.

That process (when conditions are right) leads to a raising of the level
of unity both quantitatively AND qualitatively.

We reach out NOW only for those who can be reached NOW on the basis of
current agreement. We do not label or sneer at those who can't be
reached NOW, for that is merely stupid self-expression, not organizing.

Those who are apathetic or hostile TODAY will, under the right
conditions -- REPEAT: Under the Right (Future) Conditions) -- become
tomorrow's friends. We must work simultaneously in the present and in
the future.

Carrol