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As I said in my first post, I just want to remark . . . . In other words, I don't think this is a serious topic, and even if I did I would not care to argue with a book of quotations. Much leftist thought now and for some decades has been strongly influenced by grossd failure to understand or even try to understand that (nearly worldwide) Movement of Movements which we call "The '60s." This showed up vividly, for example, in that thread on alleged Panther "ultra-leftism." Of course those who carried on that movement tended also underestimated the magnitude of what they were engaged in. History never repeats itself, either as farce or tragedy, and the next upsurge of left activity will be greatly different from the '60s; all we can know about it is that it will catch us completely by surprise and will be at an advanced stage before we even clearly recognize that something is happening. But we can at least extract from The 60s a recognition of how much real unity (or, in my preferred term, coherence) cvan be achieved in political struggle without the benefit of formal agreement among the forces in movement. That way, at least we will be a fighting the last war instead of the war before the war before the last war. Carrol ________________________________________________ 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
