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Jay Moore wrote: > 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. I am not in the business of denouncing stupid, self-defeating tactics when they are not occurring. I have much better things to do with my time. I was busy preparing a post on Kemal and Lenin when I had to put the killings of 3 workers on the front burner. > 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. Actually the Weathermen and the leftists for McGovern (or McCarthy) phenomena are dialectically interrelated. Frustration with the failure of "peace candidates" made SDS'ers go haywire. > 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." A few? If only that were so... ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
