Re: [Marxism] People friendly?

[mds <zenporcupinegrind@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting thread; just want to add a brief thought.

The influence of Maoism in Western communist movements (1968+) is
unmistakable, albeit subtle; while not the root cause of the move to
characterising "people" as the central reference point, a move away
from class and towards more generalised / ill-defined categories is
certainly one of Maoism's more lasting influences.

-Marc

On Sunday, September 19, 2004, at 04:35  pm, Charles Brown wrote:

> The origin might be the slogan "People before Profits" from circa 1980.
> Hall-Davis or Hall-Tyner presidential campaigns maybe.
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> Good slogan , by the way. Has spread to many "people's groups".
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> Recall, "All power to the people".
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> :>)
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> CB
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> ^^^^^^
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> From: Michael Feldman
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> Over the past couple of years I've noticed the CPUSA use the word
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> "people" in reference to almost everything i.e. people friendly
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> organizations, more people friendly, people friendly legislation,
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> peoples movement etc. Could any of the comrades on this list tell me
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> exactly where the orgin of placing the word people behind everything
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> stems from historically? It's one of the justifications for asking
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> CP'ers to go out and help register voters because Kerry would pass
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> slightly more "people friendly" legislation. Is this Maoist or
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> Stalinist phraseology?
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