[lbo-talk] what's left

[shag carpet bomb]

of course! we have to *frame* everything because the point is to get those 
cwazy queers to see where there true interests lie! we need them on OUR 
side. it's not that we need to get on THEIR side or anything! it's not that 
our reductionist account of an ultimately TRUE and ONLY source of 
revolutionary activity is fucked up or anything. obviously, THEY must be 
misdiagnosing the problem.

At 10:36 AM 4/28/2010, Wojtek S wrote:
>[WS:]  In social movement literature it is called "frame bridging."  What it
>means is that movement activists try to link their cause to those of other
>participants.  Gay marriage may have nothing to do with capital, but if you
>"bridge" their cause to a an anti-capitalist agenda and thus broaden your
>anti-capitalist movement.
>
>I think UNITEHERE used that strategy quite effectively to build support for
>their unionizatioon drives.
>
>Wojtek
>
>On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:48 AM, brad wrote:
> >
> >  Take gay marriage.  The left supports it because it both thinks it is
> >> correct to oppose the oppression of same sex couples, but also as a means
> >> to
> >> build a movement and chip away at the forces of capital.
> >>
> >
> > How does same-sex marriage undermine capital? I don't see it at all.
> >
> > Doug
> >
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