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From a review of Max Elbaum's book by another Maoist veteran:
However, NCM groups underestimated two critical factors that ultimately
would doom the Rainbow Coalition experiment. First, despite all its
non-electoral organizing and mobilizing components – from social-justice
oriented trade union efforts which crossed industrial and rural divides,
evolving links with the peace, anti-imperialist, and environmental
movements on issues of military intervention, nuclear weapons, and
energy sources, as well as a continued emphasis on “multinational”
alliances between oppressed groups – the Rainbow Coalition was primarily
an electoral vehicle, tied to the election cycle, delegate selection
processes, vote-getting and Democratic Party politics. 16 In the end,
the former components were subordinate to and dependent upon the latter
and failed to take on a life of their own. Second, in spite of all
efforts to make it a bottom-up, democratic movement, the Rainbow
Coalition was dominated and controlled by Jesse Jackson and his key
acolytes. When, in the aftermath of the 1988 election, Jackson cut a
deal with the Democratic Party establishment and decided to wind the
whole thing up, the Rainbow left was powerless to stop him.
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/07/19/lessons-from-one-left-to-the-next-revolution-in-the-air-reissued/
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