Re: AUT: ANSWER and the liberals

[Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris, your continued efforts to belittle the anti-war
movement are difficult to understand, given the
obvious importance of this movement and its
spectacular growth in your aprt of the world. First
you claimed that attempts to organise mass anti-war
marches would come to nothing, in the States at least.
Even after the 100,000-strong march on Washington DC
last year you denied that the anti-war moveemnt could
be called a movement. Now the movement has become so
large that you cannot deny its existence you try to
write it off as immune to influence from
revolutionaries (post of a few days ago) and even
mostly bourgeois:

>To challenge the bourgeois organizations, indeed?
>But how? To try to recruit?  To try and sit in
>coalitions mostly only attended
by these people?  Or to do something different?

Are you seriously suggesting that most of the people
active in anti-war coalitions like ANSWER and the Stop
the War Coalition - the two coalitions being discussed
in this thread - are 'bourgeois'? What sort of
methodology is giving you this analysis? Surely it is
time that you admitted that the anti-war movement
contains very large numbers of workers, both organised
and unorganised, and that ANSWER and its ilk must be
engaged in a serious and non-sectarian (if undoubtedly
critical) way, rater than derided or dismissed.

Cheers
Scott















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