Re: [Marxism] Disjunction between antiwar sentiment and size of protest

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

No "mere" anti-war movement, _ever_, has stopped or even significantly
affected a war. The anti-vietnam war movement is irrelevant here because
of the context of the black liberation movement and what one might call
the "general uproar" of the '60s, all the other movements, local and
national, of varying size and militancy, which the black liberation
movement inspired.

Discussion of the present movement, of what it should do, what it can
do, how it can do it, etc. is simply blowing smoke unless it accepts
this fact about anti-war movements in general. What happened in the '60s
simply is of no relevance, and tactical thought which tacitly assumes
the '60s movement as a model or standard will go nowhere.

Carrol

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