Re: [Marxism] "Explanations" Divorced from Political Projects

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
> 
> 
> So why hasn't the broad-based opposition to the war been matched by an
> equally broad-based antiwar movement? "The only thing that would
> really wake people up," says Linda Waste of Military Families Speak
> Out, "is if we had a draft." It may seem obvious, but conscription,
> more than anything else, fueled opposition to the war in Vietnam.

Yes. Conscription was an important. It was certainly not "more
important," however than:

a. The Vietnamese resistance, and
b. The Black Liberation Movement.

But if our rulers believe this, and for that reason fear to institute a
draft, all the better. I suspect, however, that without equivalents to
the Vietnamese struggle and to the model (and excitementj) provided  by
the black struggle, our rulers _could_ safely institute a draft without
triggering a movement of the magnitude of the movement against the war
in Vietnam.

Carrol

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