[lbo-talk] Is Obama Running Interference to ProtectBankers' Pay?

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
>> As demonstrated by the civil rights movement in the fifties, we  
>> didn't need all the white people in the South to agree with  
>> desegregation before that social change could occur; we needed a  
>> social movement (supported by the minority of the population in the  
>> South!) to make it happen.
> 
> 
> So you're with Carrol? Movements just happen, and there's nothing we  
> can do to promote them? If so, I'm regretting not having sold out 20  
> years ago.
> 
> Doug

No, I'm just saying that speculating on the motives of the people who 
participate in social movements is unproductive.  We can do work to 
instigate social movements, but which specific techniques will spark a 
fire can only be identified after the fact.

Miles