Re: RE: $145 billion fine for Tobacco Capital !

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:27 14/07/00 -0400, you wrote:

> A not too-well recognized hero in this whole struggle .... has been
> instrumental in ........
> promoting the perspective that anti-smoking means a critique of corporate
> power, not a moralistic crusade against individual bad habits.

That is where a marxist perspective can inform and transform struggles.
That is not to say he was a marxist for public, or indeed private record.

An old member of the South African Communist Party once said to me they had
a saying that the best people were communists without knowing it.

The point is that this is a strategic theoretical perspective that links
literally millions of personal tragedies with a materially-based class
analysis of who is the main enemy and how to unite the overwhelming
majority of people against that main enemy.

And it works even in the belly of the beast, the USA. Of course sometimes
at great cost.

Chris Burford

London