RE: [Marxism] Re: anti-imperialism (An experience with building a coal ition against "empire" in New York City)

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

I re-read Out Now a couple months ago, and remember this quote. I don't 
remember what Fred contrasts it to, but it's purpose was quite clear in the 
context of the chapter: Fred uses it to explain why the party and YSA had to 
stay the course in fighting the pessimism and liberalism which fed anti-mass 
action, pseudo-multi-issue approaches.

In any case the recent Seattle experience Dave describes bolsters Fred's main 
point (and it sounds like you're doing great work, Dave).

-- "David McDonald" <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank goodness for indices, or I would never have found the following quote 
from that instructive work, a quote from a contemporaneous letter written in 
confidence (and therefore more honest and to the point than other, public, 
statements, according to Halstead) by an SWP activist reporting on the 
political lay of the land in 1966, around the time of the elections, following 
a campus tour:



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