[Marxism] Social movements don't die in the DP

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An analysis of the DP convention that works better
S. Artesian sartesian at earthlink.net 
Wed Sep 3 14:33:37 MDT 2008 

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I would say yes to:

1. civil rights: in that the basis of the movement was the "plowing up"
of
Southern agriculture by mechanization beginning with WW2, and
increasing
industrialization, migration of African-Americans into cities and as
part of
the working class.  At core, then,  the civil rights movement to
achieve
emancipation of black Americans had to achieve the emancipation of
black
labor; and in this era that meant a challenge to capitalism, to
private
property.  Thus the theater of struggle moved North, moved into urban
areas,
moved into industry with class demands for open housing,
non-discriminatory
wage levels, achieving IMO its peak with the struggles of black workers
in
the auto industry in and around Detroit and the strike of the Memphis
sanitation workers.

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CB: Yes this evidences a major flaw in the line on the DP: Substituting
your "revolutionary" goals for the social movement for the goals of the
people in the actual social movement, in this case the US Civil Rights
Movement.  For the people in the movement, their goals were
substantially achieved - ending legal Jim Crow. These were achieved in
major part through the DP in the federal government, refuting your
initial claim.




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