[Marxism] of victory and victories

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

S. Artesian wrote:

<Now if Greg wants to claim that yes, the "democratic, national"  
struggle is transitional and
"we are still in it," that begs the question. The question is, is  
such a struggle sufficient?
And if not what steps must be taken to effect the transition. I think  
the workers in Chicago took
that step, halting, qualified, incomplete as it might be.>

I agree with your summation here. Obviously, the struggle for civil  
rights is not "sufficient" in and of itself. I was taken, however,   
by James Carroll's commentary on the occupation in Chicago, when he  
stated that the workers and their supporters, emboldened by Obama's  
affirmation of their takeover, have blurred the boundary between  
civil and workers' rights by their actions. This seemed to be what  
King was all about with his poor people's movement. In other words,  
it could be seen as an organic extension of the civil rights movement  
in as much as it also helps to bury the color line.

I don't have a pre-conceived blueprint of "next steps", but any  
movement which pushes the envelope of civil rights and carries that  
idea into the workplace, it seems to me, is a good place to start.

Greg McDonald

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