[lbo-talk] Missed the Boat Twice?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > What are activists to do when movements wane?
>
> (I'm limiting keyboard input until the tennis elbow that has  
> plagued me
> for months is finally gone, hence the taciturnity of the following.)
>
> They must keep  on doing the same thing they would be doing when  
> movement is flourishing, because there is no predicting when  
> movements will flourish, and they won't flourish unless people keep  
> trying even when failure is guaranteed. No '60s without the work of  
> the CP, NAACP, a few other groups in the '40s, 50s, and early '60s.  
> The more activists who stick to it (and stay away from the DP)  
> during such (usually long) interims, the more quickly a punctuation  
> will grow and the stronger it will be.
>
> Carrol
>

I agree with you that we need to keep at it, up or down.  But I think  
we need to also see when to retreat and when to go on the offensive,  
so to speak.

I think we missed at least two chances to up the ante -- early 2004  
and August-September 2005.  Bush seems trending up again, in part  
because of those failures: <http://pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm>.

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