[lbo-talk] Greenberg post-election survey

[Alan Rudy]

My reaction to this last, very good, sentence was: "Huh, I wonder if the DP
and union leadership ever even consider mobilizing their members/base or if
the social movement/grassroots politics model is beyond their ken..."  My
sense, sadly, is that party, union, and DC-based "movement" organizations
see themselves as leaders who direct adherents/followers/memberships not as
the temporary heads of democratic organizations... and, worst of all, this
perspective is shared by most adherents/followers.memberships.  I know,
quite well, that there have always been tendencies in this direction and
that the 1955-1975 period of increased bottom-up driven activity is the
anomaly in the second half of the 20th C... but it's still depressing.

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote:


> The problem, of course, is that the DP and union leaderships are reluctant
> to mobilize their members for fear of losing control of the process and
> risking more serious defeat - the point of departure for the left in
> opposition to the leaders of mass-based organizations.
>
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