[Marxism] A letter from my boss

[Mark Lause]

I'd preface my post by repeating the comment that Louis made earlier about
the need to defend the ISO comrades.  I've sent my protest and circulated it
widely to others of my coworkers here.  Whether or not to defend the
students being investigated is just not an issue.

That said, people going into an action like this should be absolutely clear
about what you want to do, why you want to do it, what you expect to
accomplish by it, etc.  The less you decide beforehand, the more you leave
the outcome to the impulses of members, friends, supporters, perfect
strangers who happen to be in the right place at the right time to decide
what an action will do.  My impression is that this incident was hardly
discussed and planned beforehand.

I get this impression from the fact that the people defending the action on
this list can't agree on what they're defending....  One of them defends
storming the stage, and the other defends not storming the stage.

We are left wondering what the action WAS, much less what it achieved or
what it sought to achieve....  And if people predisposed to sympathize with
the action are confused, where does that leave others?

ML