[A-List] Towards a Left

[Charles Brown]

Whether or not there are or are not, should be or should not be,  mass
demonstrations currently is not relevant to my original post. It is  the
absence of a _coherent_ left, visible as (more or less) a UNITY by  those
not presently part of it that I note. My point about the '60s was  not

that, gee, people were demonstrating but rather, Really -- it might  look
incoherent to people engaged in it, but actually all the  main
'streams' of activity were fairly coherent. That it was no senseless  at
the time to speak of "The Left" and mean (equally) the SWP, the  CP,
local units of the NAACP,SDS, CORE, countless unknown local  groups,
SNCC, et cetera and rightly so: they constituted a rough and ready  unity
or coherence, as much as some of them hated each other.

^^^
CB: The term used by many 
at the time was "the movement" 
for what is being referred to as 
the left above



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