Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:43:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Can We Throw The Vanguardists Out?


Here in the San Francisco Bay Area and apparently
other parts of the United States, it would appear
that the anti-war movement is being led by
the Workers World Party through their front movements
such the International Action Center and ANSWER.

This group seems unable to navigate the complex waters
that now confront the movement.  They are quite good
at saying what we are against..US agression, etc, but
are unable to address the question of how we should
balance people's understandable desire for security
with the need to combat infringements on civil
liberties.  

It also seems that if some alternative to capitalism
is not raised within the context of this movement, it
is likely to descend into cynicism.  What alternative
does Workers World provide....North Korea (NO THANKS!)

Quite frankly, I would like to get these people out of
the leadership of the movement and would like to
discuss how to go about doing this.  I am not
suggesting that another vanguardist group would be
better...I just think we need to get rid of this
dead weight that seems to me to be blocking the
path...in order to open the movement up to something
new.

What do you think?

Thomas


===="The tradition of all the dead generations
 weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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