[Marxism] FW: Inevitable Sunlight

[Joaquin Bustelo]

A comrade I sent my post about Iowa too forwarded me this one by Hunter Bear
from the SNCC list. I thought it was worth sharing.

Joaquín 

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Just a few thoughts on Iowa -- and Beyond:

When I sacked in last night, I felt considerably better about the national
-- and even global -- future than I have for a hell of a long time.

It wasn't too long ago, historically speaking, that people like many of us
had to fight to survive at a Woolworth lunch counter.

We see the tremendous influx of young people into the Obama -- and, to a
substantial extent, into the Edwards bailiwick as well -- as a damn
realistic harbinger of a better future and an ultimate promise of an even
better one.

In the late 1950s, many veteran left radicals were discouraged. Those of us,
vastly younger and just "taking the trail," were far more hopeful and
actively zealous. Even in Arizona, we were engaged in the more socially
conscious dimensions of Labor, we organized a highly successful campus-wide
food strike and dorm betterment campaign at Arizona State, and were moving
to challenge compulsory ROTC. And we pushed in our far corner for human
rights.

And comparable things were certainly going on in lots of other local places.

Nationally, the Civil Rights Movement was, with deliberate speed, picking up
momentum -- just as there has been, in this difficult epoch, much anti-war
movement.

JFK's election was never seen by many of us as any great millenium. But,
fueled by many younger people and others of similar inclination, it
reflected the profound discontent and frustration that had festered in the
"dismal '50s." The election of '60 ushered in a rapidly growing atmosphere
of Realistic Hope.

Movement picked up -- and up -- and People Wanted More -- and More. They
pushed and More came.

It's always been my experience that, when folks start winning on good and
tangible fronts, they shoot higher -- and higher. The Kennedys et al.[and
the System in general] were pressured from the grassroots For More -- and
More. And a fair amount of More did indeed come.

There is always a place for Us Radicals -- especially if we try to avoid the
intricate theology of ideological nit-picking and its consequent schisms and
falling-away and, even more fundamentally, alienation from the grassroots.

Whether times are lean or times are flush, it's up to Us to keep the Vision
high. Whatever happens in 2008 and beyond, we all have our jobs to do -- as
we, via our hearts and minds, see fit:

Organize -- That remains Genesis. Always and Forever.

Just a few thoughts on a rather cold and windy Idaho mountain morn -- where
the arising and inevitable Sun shines just under the eastern horizon.

Yours, Hunter [Hunter Bear]


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ 
and Ohkwari' 

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