[lbo-talk] Resolutionary socialism (Was: the Iraqi resistance atwork)

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> WHEREAS if American liberals and leftists had been all on the same page,
all
> demanding immediate US withdrawal and organizing the kind of massive
> protests (demos, strikes, occupations, civil disobedience, riots, etc. for
a
> month or so)that led to the revocation of the CPE in France;
>
> WHEREAS if if even one in ten (3.9 million) or even one in a hundred
> (390,000) Americans who voted for the Democrats against the Bush
> administration had responded to such a united call by the US left with a
> sustained month of demonstrations, strikes, occupations, civil
disobedience,
> and rioting;
>
> BE IT RESOLVED that the LBO list considers these actions would have made a
> greater impression on the White House than the election of Democratic
> candidates to Congress and would have enhanced the prospects of an
immediate
> withdrawal of US forces from Iraq;
>
> AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the LBO list calls on American liberals
and
> leftists to unite around the program described above;
>
> AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the LBO list condemns any American (and
> Western) liberals and leftists who reject the above program as being
> complicit in the US aggression against the people of Iraq.
>
> MOVED BY Y. Furuhashi. Seconded by C. Cox (?).
>
> I can vote for the preamble and the first resolved, but the second
resolved
> strikes me as perhaps a little unrealistic and the last one as somewhat
> sectarian.
>
Really? It was the last one that really appealed to me as it offers to
things the left is short of.  Moral Clarity and Unity.

Travis