[lbo-talk] How would democratic ownership and control move us towards serving human needs?

[Carrol Cox]

Let me just emphasize one point: The mass movement(s) some of us see
developing will _not_ be dominated by any one theoretical tendency. They
will be grounded in coalition politics (some formal & merely worked out on
the ground). This  is not compatible with the full scale 'ideolgoical'
warfare among left tendencies that too often has been the case in the past.
(A current example is Lou Proyect's hysterical War on MrZine.) The
"Principles of Unity" paraded by the various "New Communist" groups of the
'70s represented this tendency to narrow the movement.

But this sort of rough-and-ready coherence (as opposed to formal unity
expressed in Party Organization) can't be merely "Can't we all just get
along." 

So: we are going to have problems. We are already having problems. We do
need clarity about various tendencies. Black & Red & Christian & Etc.
Together -- but not on the basis of ignorance.

Carrol