(* There was one response. Lou P quoted the first sentence of the last paragraph and commented "Harrumph.")
Carrol
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Marxism] False comparisons, false hopes, false tsctics Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:07:43 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition<marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu> To: "marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu" <marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
There is no useful comparison to be made between the anti-war movement of the '60s and of the present: There is no hugely varied black liberation movement at the center of the stage now from which all other movements can draw strengh. {In addition the movements of the '60s were fueled by two decades of steady economic expansion, laying the basis for what was then known as a "Revolution of Rising Expectations." There is no such explosive growth of hope in the last few decades.}
Hence total unity around ideally correct tactics in the present anti-war movement would have no effect on the war.
We are engaged in a holding operation to keep local left organizations alive with some growth if we are lucky. (It makes not a fucking bit of difference what national or would-be national organizations do or don't do. As long as thinking people think about the wrong problems (e.g., unity in the anti-war movement) left thinking will be moribund. {In other words: Left thought now should concentrate on how to maintain and strengthen various local organizations, not on big plans, big hopes, or big fears.}
Carrol
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