Re: [Marxism] Offlist: Social movements don't die in the DP&In-Reply-To=

["Christopher Hutchinson" <christopher.hutch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Didn't the Liberal forces around MLK jr. break with him when he started to
speak out against the Vietnam War and take more of a class perspective?
Wasn't he about lead a "Poor Persons" march on Washington? Who were the Dems
backing that initiative?  It's not like the DP lead the civil rights
movement...maybe they passed the laws but they were not on the front line of
the struggle.  If the DP gave a damn about Civil Rights then the Jena 6
would not be struggling for their freedom along with Mumia Abu Jamal and
countless others still locked up in racist prisons.

Christopher

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Charles Brown <
charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Marv,
>
> I just realized that it is just false to claim that social movements go
> to the DP to die.  As I said, the Civil Rights movement actually used
> the DP and the DP was debilitated for being an instrument of Black
> people !  The complete opposite.
>
> Anti-Vietnam war peace movement too. McGovern was the DP candidate
> basically a single issue candidate. stop the war .  And the DP paid for
> that as well. Nixon landslide.
>
> This ultra left dogma about the DP is completely false ! The opposite
> is true, when we look at actual social movements.
>
> Charles
>
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