On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 03:13 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > >> On Nov 9, 2024, at 3:07 PM, Mark Lause via groups.io <markalause@...> >> wrote: >> >> The Democrats are not going to call any demonstrations. Not when they can >> write a strongly worded letter or maybe file a lawsuit. > > They organize demonstrations. They threw their weight behind the Women's > March of 2017
Worth noting also is that most demonstrations aren't marches on national capitals planned by leaders of national organizations drawing in participants from across the country. They are demonstrations within cities where "unity from below" between Marxists and rank-and-file liberals in the Democratic and social democratic and Labour parties develops quite spontanously and organically. What Artesian calls the struggle over" the form and content of the unity" rarely if ever comes up. I don't recall any debates, for example, between those wanting to " articulate the actual class struggle of labor against capital" against those wanting to march for "free speech" or "freedom of assembly" or "individual rights". Organizers don't and can't police slogans. There are always a diversity of signs and chants, some of which are invariably sectarian and calculated more to satisfy the revolutionary self-image of the demonstrators than to win sympathetic bystanders to the cause. Most recently, we've encountered this divide on the pro-Palestinian marches. There is, in other words, room for both those who want to articulate class struggle and those who want to focus on building public pressure on governments to adopt democratic demands or to withdraw their support for imperialist wars. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33446): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33446 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109441085/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
