>>>Precisely. The twin goals of recruiting for the party and the ostensible
goal of the front group are contradictory. One negates the other so the
whole thing becomes self-limiting.
See: Understanding Sects, Cadres, and Mass Movement Organizations
http://www.resistinc.org/newsletter/issues/1999/12/berlet.html
>>>One thing I genuinely do not understand is the almost uniform failure by the
left to organize on the financial crisis the way they did on the Iraq War.
We have a humongous crisis of capitalism and the response from the left has
mostly been crickets. I don't get it
See: Taking Tea Partiers Seriously http://www.progressive.org/berlet0210c.html
And the AFL/CIO Working America face-to-face organizing strategy: http://www.workingamerica.org/issues/jobs.cfm
-Chip
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Bob Morris Sent: Sun 6/20/2010 11:07 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER
Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> Isn't that the problem with most vanguardist parties? It seems to me that
> Workers World (before the split) and ANSWER had done a reasonably
> credible job in organizing antiwar protests during the run-up to the Iraq
> War. Eventually though, they hit a ceiling, and they seem to have been
> unable and/or unwilling to do what would have been required to expland
> these protests into a mass movement on the scale of the antiwar movements
> of forty years ago because that would have meant sharing control with people
> not affiliated with WW/ANSWER, and like most vanguardist groups, that was
> something that they were loathe to do.
>
Precisely. The twin goals of recruiting for the party and the ostensible goal of the front group are contradictory. One negates the other so the whole thing becomes self-limiting.
One thing I genuinely do not understand is the almost uniform failure by the left to organize on the financial crisis the way they did on the Iraq War. We have a humongous crisis of capitalism and the response from the left has mostly been crickets. I don't get it. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk