Re: [Marxism] Cynthia McKinney Announces Formation of DIGNITY

[Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>]

I raised this question about Dignity and am still as ignorant of what
specifically it proposes to do, where, and how.  Other groups have
been around saying what the founders of Dignity are saying.  In terms
of issues of police brutality and other matters directly effecting the
black community, strengthening NAACP chapters already long rooted in
those communities would seem a more effective approach.  What is it
that Dignity would do or say that isn't being done or said?

I'm not a member of any socialist organization and have no axe to
grind on this.  I'm skeptical about any organization launched top-down
with no connections to any existing struggle.  I have the same
response to Dignity as to the PFP's decision to go national.  As far
as that goes, in the last election, I had the same reaction to the
Socialist Party and others who placed the priority on their own teensy
campaigns with no reference to the larger movement.  Or to the various
socialists who finally discovered the GPUS and decided it was the
neatest thing since Trotsky's recipe for corned beef.

Most importantly, perhaps, what's the point of groups that talk about
democratic standards incessantly but only talk...and only by the
designated talkers.

What's the justification for building yet another members-only
treehouse in a movement littered with dozens of them?

ML

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