[PEN-L:33016] Re: Re: ANSWER, NION, United for Peace, & Win Without War

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>


> >  > It's a case of one kind of sectarianism against another kind, I
believe.
> >
> >======================
> >
> >What about the anti-sectarian sect[s]?
> >
> >:-)
> >
> >Ian
>
> You mean in a good sense or bad sense?  (I'm not sure if I understand
> what you mean by your term, though.)

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Aha, an equivocation! :-)

I was using the term in the sense of what Sam Smith calls "the
colloquial left."


>
> In a good sense, I think that most anti-war activists will try to
> show up at big demos, and coordinate local actions with national days
> of actions, called by any of the coalitions.  Rank-and-file activists
> are non-sectarian, by and large.


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Right, and one of the larger goals should be the breakdown of the
distinction, in speech and practice, "between" rank-and-file activists
and the "peace and justice bureaucracy." This has something to do with
positional goods problems; status, ego etc.






>
> On the other hand, if big actions are not well coordinated among the
> four coalitions or well spaced out (in the event that four coalitions
> cannot come together), activist fatigue may set in.  Can't attend a
> big DC demo every other week!
> --
> Yoshie
>
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A big Demo "every other week" will strain the finances and
emotional/biopower "resources" of colloquial lefties. It makes sense to
be on guard for a kind of "instant gratification" syndrome among
activists. Ameliorating the possibilities of fatigue and the concomitant
infighting [blaming each other] that comes with/from fatigue will be a
crucial task in the months and years ahead and that links up to how we
deal with the part of my reply above.


Ian