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

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/29/07, Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> We should not exaggerate the breadth of the antiwar movement in the first
> years of the movement in the 1960's. They key difference from today was its
> (relative) political independence, something the antiwar movement inherited
> from the Black movement.

>
> This sector has to be viewed in relation to the strength and savvy of the
> organized social/radical/socialist left. Today there is no one playing the
> role that the NAACP, the SCLC, and SNCC did in the 50s and 60s, certainly
> not with that kind of weight, in the Black community. That is, whether with
> moderation or radicalization of tactics, fighting in an uncompromising way
> for the right of Blacks.

Today there is a Black middle class, which means that it is harder for
the entire Black community to be radicalised and for NAACP etc to be
playing a similar role.

Another important point is that street drugs, especially crack and
meth epidemics, have ripped apart poor communities and destroyed the
social coherence that might have helped foster activism. Similarly,
massive incarceration rates have also torn poor communities apart.

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