Re: [Marxism] Seven Theses on the Current Period, the War and theAnti-war Movement,

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> This is a huge disaster which even the most compliant of
> media will not be able to conceal for ever.

> The truth that
> Iraq is a Vietnam type quagmire will out.

> And then I suspect
> that the 30-40% you refer to will shrink to a hard core 10%
> at best.

Three points, not I think of equal validity.

It is indeed a huge disaster for imperialism, and the central task of
left thinking in the u.s. is hammering out the means of building on that
disaster.

It is indeed some sort of quagmire, but it is _not_, however, for many
reasons, a "Vietnam type" quagmire, and I suspect that using Vietnam as
our perspective on it interferes more than contributes to our
understanding of what is happening and how we should respond.

And the third point is just wrong. At the height of anti-war sentiment
in the 1960s & 1970s a majority of the u.s. population continued to
support the war. We can doubtless build a huge resistance to the
Occupation of Iraq, and a growing numbers will cease to support it
_without_ actually opposing it, but that huge resistance will still
amount to a minority of the populace.

Carrol


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