VLVL (6) Sasha: Hollywood blacklists

[Mike Weaver]

Rob:
>an echo of the way the IWW bickered itself into the ground and
>thereafter devolved into a bunch of ineffectual picnic organisers who ended
>up letting the fascists sneak in to steal the prize. Another failure of the
>left, "a failure of public will".

You don't perchance think that the strength of the opposition might have 
been more responsible for the defeat of the IWW? The bickering starts when 
the struggle slows down - energies turned inwards etc. And what's this 
putdown of picnics? When the power of the opposition is too great to 
challenge head on the best thing to do is ease back, keep the flame lit and 
the social networks alive.