I think my post raised a number of issues worth discussing, as Marvin did seriously in his responses. It was not intended to be a formal programme for a new communist party or something, nor was it written in the spirit of point-scoring. I would like to see other concrete responses to it.
Carrol
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CB: Here's a concrete response and questions:
Carrol : For over a century every single promising mass movement of the left (both those that took mostly non-electoral form and those that tried to incorporate electoral work) have been absorbed and destroyed by the DP.
^^^ CB: The Civil Rights movement succeeded in ending Jim Crow, and the Peace movement helped end the Viet Nam war. In those senses they were not destroyed, rather they succeeded. I wouldn't say they were exactly absorbed either. I don't see where the women's movement has been absorbed.
What are other promising mass movements of the last 50 years ? 100 years ?