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On 14.03.2016 17:13, Manuel Barrera via Marxism wrote:
In reply to Clayborne and others who seem to think they "know" what and how Black and
Brown youth "should" be doing about this racist Trump campaign (from my reply to Partido
on Facebook):
The Marxmail discussion is an exercise in theoretical posturing: essentially, old people
telling young people that they should've had more "leadership" and, then from
there, nothing. The implication is that somehow the young black and brown activists along
with the well-established coalition-building left in Chicago should have not fallen into
a trap
The debates here are nothing new. I remember hearing arguments like this
before from "older" or "more experienced" "activists" when we were
campaigning against the National Front in Britain in the mid-1970s. Both
before and after we - then young activists (brought together to a
certain extent by the British SWP) - confronted and stopped the NF in
Lewisham, we were denounced for being "red fascists" and "thoughtless
street fighters" by many (not all) left Labourists and the Communist
Party. We should have shown our disgust by meeting 5 miles away and
marching in the otehr direction. Instead we confronted them and stopped
them. After that, partly through the Anti-Nazi League we built on a
combination of mass mobilisations (and sometimes militant
confrontations) and mass agitation and education. And we eventually
killed the NF stone dead.
If we'd listened to the "experienced old hands", we wouldn't have done
it and the far right would have established much deeper roots in British
society than they've been able to do since.
What I hear are tired old men preaching what is essentially pacifist
reformism from the sidelines. I can only say that I was thrilled to see
what the young (and not so young) comrades pulled off in Chicago.
Einde O'Callaghan
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