Re: [Marxism] Camejo and Shawki/ISO and so it goes...

[paul bunyan <cutemdown2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Octob1917@xxxxxxx wrote:
>There is absolutely no militancy here, nobody risks anything, and that in the
>end is what it takes. I say it again, the organised Left in the US has
>succeeded only in repelling workers, due in large part to an intellectual 
>>snobbery responsible for substituting paternalism for solidarity.


"Nobody risks anything?" Oh really? Being blacklisted from employment or run 
off jobs isn't risking anything? Those who were fired on and wounded with 
rubber bullets and wooden dowels by the Oakland cops at the Port of Oakland, 
April 7 of last year weren't risking anything? If being in favor of workers 
having the right to organize and everyone having access to employment housing 
and health care is intellectual snobbery, fine, so be it.

This "left bashing" gets a bit tiresome. I suspect it's a case of the need to 
hit out at those closest to us. How do you figure the Left is responsible for 
over 60% of the population in the US believing a connection between Iraq and 
the events of 9/11/01? Is it possible the US media may bear some responsibility 
for this? We can only reach so many people with the Left press, and labor and 
left intenet lists, such as this.

I'm not saying we don't make mistakes. I've sure as hell made my share! I'm 
saying that a more decent and humane society is not possible without activist 
who are striving toward this goal. To trash such people, regardless of what 
tendency they support is a greater outrage than any mistakes they may make.

Arundhati Roy recently suggested shutting down sites of multinational 
corporations, on an international basis, by mass civil disobedience on the same 
day. I would add a friendly amendment. Rather than go after the usual suspects 
such as Haliburton and Bechtel, I would suggest mass action to shut down 
outlets of the US press, in this country, and their international outlets, and 
present a list of demands for more fair coverage. No, I don't think the media 
would retreat, initially, at least, but the press sure as hell couldn't ignore 
such actions.


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