Patience

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*       Malcolm X's famous speech was "The Ballot or the Bullet ?"

I first heard of cultivating patience and sense of irony from Dorothy Healy.
It's the last line of her autobiography. She was a CPUSA leader. Left in the
sixties. Later started DSA.


Charles


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*               Didn't Malcolm X make Martin Luther King possible?


At 14:27 17/08/2004, Carrol wrote:

>I would agree. In fact, in any given locality, most of the actual troops
>think in terms of "moderate" demands. One can't attack them. We are back
>to Lenin's "patience, patience, and patience" as the three revolutionary
>virtues. (My source for the quote a friend back in the '60s; I don't
>know when or where Lenin said it, if he did. But it's still good
>revolutionary advice, whether Lenin said it or not.)
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>Carrol

Agreed--- but the way I heard it was that the two virtues of a
revolutionary (or Bolshevik) were patience and a sense of irony; however,
I've never been able to locate the source (even when using patience, a
sense of irony and google).
         cheers,
          michael


Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus


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