robbo203 wrote: It must
robbo203 wrote:
It must surely be obvious to everyone now that this kind of abstentionous approach is a major reason why the party has not grown and will not grow. Positive endorsement of forms of direct action – like squatting – does at least give it one foot in the camp of immediate struggles and so better enables it to counter the otherwise massive influence – hegemony – of the reformists in this area
Not at all obvious actually. The opposite view is equally plausible…….more so. Before long “one foot” would become both feet and before long we would become, like so many others, totally consumed with the here and now. Supporting (oh, how I hate that nebulous word) direct action would soon become our whole life’s work.