[Marxism] Romanticising Foreign Movements, Ignoring Their Lessons

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>  by Left Luggage / May 23rd, 2009
>
> The sell-out event at last year’s Marxism conference, organised by
> Britain’s Socialist Workers’ Party, was a talk by David Hilliard, former
> chief of staff of the Black Panthers. By all accounts the event was standing
> room only and Hilliard was accorded a standing ovation at the beginning and
> end of the meeting.
>
> This would be unremarkable, except that almost his entire lecture was spent
> urging those activists present to reformulate their strategies in light of
> the Black Panthers’ experience. If you watch the 
> meeting<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWtSLBbMmd8>in full, it almost seems 
> that two different languages are being spoken, with
> Hilliard’s message – restated over and over – unacknowledged by almost every
> speaker from the audience.
>
> full article --
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> http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/05/romanticising-foreign-movements-ignoring-their-lessons/
> >
>
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
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