CC writes:
... The single-issue approach so _over-estimates_ the power of capital that it judges politics too complicated for ordinary people, who must be kept content with simple immediate goals, like "Out Now." (I'm not objecting to that slogan, I think it the only appropriate one; I'm objecting to confining the thought of the "masses" to that level.)
The key problem is "confining the thought of the 'masses.'" A demo can be organized around the War, but the issues that people want to bring up should not be limited. What should be limited is certain actions, e.g., violent attacks on the police. Not only do those hurt the movement, but they are often the product of police agents (provocateurs) or total idiots.
The Laundry-List approach (which can and in the u.s. for 70 years has gone along with tailing the DP) so _under-estimates_ the power of capital that it believes no particular politics at all are needed but merely a collection of people demanding that nice things happen.
somehow, we have to figure out one single theme that unifies the laundry list, even if it alienates some of the components of a movement. "Human liberation," democracy, and/or the "whole lives of whole individuals" sound good, but are pretty vacuous. -- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
