[lbo-talk] wineheads, soldiers, loud mouths, and riffraff

[Carrol Cox]

Someplace in the archives of quite a few years ago there are posts by me
arguing that Lenin's thought in WITBD assumed the necessity of
spontaneous resistance as the context for his arguments. He did not
oppose spontneity but the _worship_ of spontaneity. An interesting point
in shag's account is the attempt of SCLC to control the continued
spontaneous acts of resistance apparently not realizing that their
program's effectiveness in part depended on that continuing spontaneous
activity. (Though some of it, no doubt, was the product of what might be
called moledfular organization of a few for a particular act.

Continuimg riots during the '60s were, I have always thought, an
important, perhaps essential part of the movement as a whole.

Bellamy, in China Shakes the World, has an interesting chapter on an
_unofficial_ guerilla group, not under Party disclipline.  He
accompanied themon an action the point of which was to sneak into a
village, kidnap the  local Landlord and his wife, leave and excecute the
landlord before releasing his wife. Two points about the chapter were of
interest. First, he mentions that the Party would have been very upset
on his accompanying the undisciplined group, not wanting an American to
be killed and cause international fuss. The other was that the wife of
the landlord was not at all unhappy to see her husband shot! That leads
Bellamy to give an account of the importance of women in the Chinese
Revolutoinl

 
Carrol

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