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We all know (well, ok, most of us do) the character that this march is going to take. Revolutionary pessimism isn't a bad thing if it does not paralyze you (or drives you to smoke weed to forget it all and drown in our sorrows), but such pessimism Never absolves us of fighting or giving up. Eyes wide open, flat feet, sciatica, and long decades of frustration regardless. get out and march, follow it on Twitter, update on Facebook, do whatever you can do.Just do it because you know you must. Otherwise, what would be the point of voting, or for that matter, organizing a "Mass Labor Party" . . . or Solidarity? Manuel > From: bia...@embarqmail.com > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:17:34 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Marxism] Let's Have a Real Protest, Not a Democratic Pep > Rally, on October 2nd > To: mtom...@hotmail.com > > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Well, Joaquín, it's a little more complicated than that, and I assure you > that I haven't touched weed since it went for $15/ounce...Yes, the > organizers of the One Nation Working Together rally are going to promote > voting Democratic, but to say that it's going to be thoroughly and > completely a Democratic pep rally, well, not exactly. You should have heard > what Ray Stiever, the president of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council > (the CIO, which never merged with the AFL in NJ), said about Obamacare at > the IUC convention on Thursday. It was blistering. And the criticism that so > many of the on-the-ground organizers of Oct. 2 are expressing about Obama > and the Democrats is hardly "thorough and complete pep rally" stuff. The key > demand of the rally is "we want the change that we voted for," which is of > course a clear and unequivocal statement that we haven't gotten it yet, and > that it's about damned time. > > Joaquín, I agree with your basic point: in the real world, the Black > community and the organized labor movement are not ready to break with Obama > yet. I suspect that the same is true for other communities of color, with > the possible exception of the Arab immigrant community. We have to work in > that real world, and if socialists are going to earn the respect and trust > of working people, we can't be out there trying to fill buses with a "yes, > but..." attitude. What we have to do is to get working people, people of > color, young people, etc., off of their asses, and begin to get them into > the habit of taking action that doesn't involve a touch-screen in an > anonymous voting booth. Once that baby step is taken, then I have a > suspicion that working people have a few ideas of their own about what to do > next. > > Tom > > Well, it IS going to be --guaranteed-- a completely and thoroughly a > democratic party pep rally. Like, duh ... > > And anyone who says different should share whatever it is they've been > smoking, 'cause it is undoubtedly more potent than what's in my bong. > > > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/mtomas3%40hotmail.com ________________________________________________ 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
