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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Tom Cod <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > In anticipation of some criticism, I concede the point in posting the > following by Lenin that preached tolerance for religious views: > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm And on that note, we should recall that the broad religious left was the "vanguard" of the Civil Rights movement, with the secular leftist parties for the most part bringing up the rear, except of course for the CPUSA. But I guess that kind of understanding takes away from the fun of ideological tilting at superficial and two-dimensional theological windmills as portrayed in the MSM. Greg McDonald http://www.thesocialistparty.org/spo/archive/McR/Shachtman_and_Civil_Rights.html The Civil Rights movement had the active support of the Socialist Workers Party, which didn't mean a great deal (their sectarianism meant they were "outside looking in" for the most part), and the Communist Party, which had much deeper roots in the Civil Rights movement than Shachtman, had a core of black members, and was closely involved from 1955 on. Much more so than the ISL folks. But both groups - and the SP, not just the ISL faction - had good records on civil rights. The reality is everyone turned to the Civil Rights movement, which was the revolutionary ferment at that time, as labor had been in the 1930's, and one for which no group of white radicals can take credit. And, of course, you had the Quakers, the pacifists, more numerous, and probably much more important in the long run than the ISL (the "Journey of Reconciliation" - the first freedom rides - were in 1947, under the leadership of Rustin, Farmer, etc. from the FOR - the ISL folks had no contact with this that I know of). ________________________________________________ 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
