Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
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> > If you demand "all or nothing" then you have to be prepared to go
> > away empty handed sometimes
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> Who demanded all exactly?
It's pointless to demand (or beg) anything at all unless there is already in motion an "or else." Then one demands everything and steps up the or else. If the or else becomes thunderous enough, as it did in the u.s. between 1955 and 1965, then 'they' offer something. You take it. And then make more trouble. Eventually things quiet down and one works witho whatever one has gained.
I've just descrobed. roughly, the most successful poltical campaign in u.s. histoyr, the struggle for civil rights and an end to Jim Crow.
Carrol