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These issues have been debated on this List before. No doubt, ultra-leftist adventurism is a genuine problem from time to time and fire-bombing a bank (and killing innocent people in the process) may certainly not be the best tactic for advancing the revolutionary cause. However, I can’t help wondering why every time something like this comes up, Louis rushes to denounce it. A far greater problem for the left is getting sucked into the morass of bourgeois electoral politics. That was the death of the Sixties Movement, for instance. I know Louis blames the Weathermen. But far worse than their take-over of SDS was the “right deviation,” if you want to call it that, with all of those people, including some who called themselves “revolutionaries,” rushing to support McGovern as a “tactic” and then ending up in the embrace of the Democratic Party – the New Left joining there with much of the Old Commie Left. Illusions about liberals (or the Social Dems in Europe) -- and about the nature of the bourgeois state and its "legality" -- are far more significant, and important for us to address here, than pulling out hairs over a few anarchists or "black-blockers." Move on! Jay ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
