Re: [Marxism] re: Supporting the resistance?

["Carlos A. Rivera" <cerejota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>


> Louis wrote:
>
> "If anything, opposition to the war is far greater now than it was
> before the war was launched. Abu Ghraib, false claims about WMD,
> Halliburton scandals, etc. have opened the eyes of ordinary people. What's
> missing is an *effective* coalition."
>
> Opposition to the war may be wide but it isn't very deep, and "opposition"
> also doesn't equate to "out now", not by a long shot. I don't disagree
> that leadership in the movement isn't a problem, but to suggest that it is
> the only or major problem is to delude oneself as to reality.


I agree fully, and to continue with the analogy to the 60s, the US voting
population just elected, with record turnout and by a wide margin, a
domestic rectionary the like the USA hasn't seen since before FDR. Sure
there have been hawkish Presidents, Lyndon B Johnson for example, but Lyndon
B. Johnson also used the USA armed forces and US Marshalls to impose
desegregation, solidified public schooling, and established a real an
effective welfare system, not just to crush imperialism. In other words, you
could think of resons why even anti-war people would have voted for LBJ.

Yet, the USA elected someone who is so extreme to the right, only dyed in
the wool right wingers, be it domestically, foreign or both, could vote for
him.

Outside of say, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the overwhelming
majority of the people are either for the war, or for the domestic policies,
or both.

Yet from this bleak picture I do see some hopeful examples of resistance.
The problem is not confusing this examples with generalities.

sks


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