[Marxism] The low point of the CNN-You Tube debate

[Jscotlive@xxxxxxx]

Actually, antiwar sentiments spread through the ranks after GI's became  
visible and open opponents of the war, including the Fort Jackson Eight.  
There were mass meetings on the base to discuss the war spearheaded by  
SWP members who had been drafted, like Joe Cole. If the meetings had  
been called under the rubric of "GI's, it is time to come together to  
confess our crimes", they would have attracted no support at all.

Reply:
 
But today there is no draft, is there? And actually antiwar sentiment  spread 
through the ranks as a direct result of the sheer number of bodybags that  
were coming home married to an antiwar movement that grew in both size and  
militancy as the war went on. This is in contradistinction to the antiwar  
movement today, which has contracted as the war continues.
 
Perhaps you were unaware of this fact, given that you were never in the  
movement, thus reminiscent of those spectators described by Che watching  
gladiators fighting it out from the safety of the stands.
 
You:
 
Why don't you come up with a nom de guerre? John Wright was the nom de  
guerre of a respected American Trotskyist. Might I suggest something  
like Blazes Doodlebury?

Reply:
 
This the best you can do, mate? Try reading the articles. You might learn  
something.
 
J



   
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