On 12/1/06, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But we still need to keep working away at building opposition to the war, and the _general_ idea of building political consciousness inside that opposition is valid, though WWP's approach to that is obviously useless.
I don't know about Stan, but I think Joaquin is questioning the idea that "we still need to keep working away at building opposition to the war, and the _general_ idea of building political consciousness inside that opposition is valid," too. I have not read Joaquin's essay which Stan cites in his reflection, but I think I understand where he is coming from. For many outside Latino communities, this spring's powerful mobilization against the criminalization of undocumented immigrants "came out of nowhere," a pleasant surprise. But, for many working in Latino communities, organizing for driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, working through workers' centers, and so on, the spring mobilization was the national culmination (which also had a transnational dimension, as demonstrations were held simultaneously south of the border, too) of the momentum that they had built locally. That's what Joaquin is talking about. What do you think of that general shift of focus, away from the war toward communities of color -- many of them new immigrants, many of them undocumented, in sync with political development at home, who speak Spanish, who are in touch with families and friends at home, who have their own culture aside from Anglo corporate American culture -- that are at the heart of living labor in American political economy today? -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
