> > > Why Do Popular Movements Vanish? > > And Do They Have To? > > > > Marxist-Humanist Initiative invites you to a two-part exploration of the > recent history of failed revolts, and the questions they raise for the future.
Bull shit. People have to go back to work eventually: they can't stay in the streets forever. It's not a history of failed revolts; it's a history of mass movements ebbing when they have achieved as much as or more than was actually possible. This voluntarism that infects so many left historians is itself one of the barriers to resistance. The Commune. The Pullman Strike. Russia. The Black Panthers. China. These were not failures in the least. They represented what was possible under the given world conditions. One thread that runs through Lenin (more tone than explicit argument) is crucial: one has to try even if defeat is probable. See also Luxemburg's last editorial. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
