At 12:51 PM 11/3/2006, Marvin Gandall wrote:
Describing oneself or someone as a "revolutionary" outside of a revolutionary period is utterly meaningless to me.
This is a straw man that Marvin is trying to knock down. Marxists always fight for reforms. Revolutionaries are tested by their ability to push for reforms in the most effective manner. For example, it was more effective to demonstrate for abortion rights in the streets of the USA than it was to stump for votes for liberal Democrats. It was more effective to organize demonstrations for Out Now than it was to go "Clean for Gene" in 1968. It was more effective for Blacks to organize civil rights marches than to line up votes for LBJ. It was more effective for trade unionists to organize sit-down strikes in the 1930s than tail after FDR who adopted a "plague on bother your houses" stance. -- www.marxmail.org
