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My work with LOM was in Seattle where they did an excellent job around CISPES, being probably the largest organized contingent together with Workers World with the SWP having been reduced to second fiddle by that point. As for Jesse Jackson their attitude was similar to that of most people on the Left, including me, that this was a unique historic phenomenon that had mass in motion behind and should be supported and intervened into, critically or not so critically, notwithstanding whatever standing ideological objections we might have had. I know who the druggie guy was and wasn't surprised when I heard that about him later as I remember hearing him talk in 1986 and then going up to him in person for a brief conversation where he seemed to display the agitated and grandiose demeanor and sudden mood swings of a certain substance that was pretty widespread at the time, and I don't mean marijuana. David Crosby's autobiography Long Time Gone spends some time dealing with this issue in the author's life and how difficult it was trying to work public appearances around needs of this insidious addiction. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Greg McDonald <gregm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > One reason why the transition was particularly hard was that the leader > of the group, who had been an inspiration for everyone - no, it wasn't Irwin > Silber - fell into drugs and began to burn out, first secretly and then to > the entire membership's horror and disorientation. There was a split - and > anyone who ever took part in a cadre group knows how devastating a split can > be, especially if the group is large enough that few people knew all the > members, but small enough so that everyone would be affected personally. > > Max is currently involved in the web zine War Times <www.war-times.org>. > > I had recently left the CISPES regional office in NYC to travel to > Ecuador when all this occurred. Ethan's informed explanation is > exactly what I had heard from some of the other members of the group. > I must say the LOM did some very good work with CISPES . . . > Greg McDonald > > ________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
