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Revision as of 18:39, March 20, 2010
, 18:39, March 20, 2010movement vs organization
Rob, thanks for all that. It should be mentioned in the article that this branch (or version) of AIM has Marxists roots and/or is Communist-controlled. There's a reason a lot of these activists are in jail for murder. They keep shooting cops. Normal activists generally choose to make their case by displaying a higher ethical posture. My fave is [[Henry David Thoreau]], who meekly submitted to arrest and then wrote "[[Civil Disobedience]]". --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 13:43, 20 March 2010 (EDT)
Rob, thanks for all that. It should be mentioned in the article that this branch (or version) of AIM has Marxists roots and/or is Communist-controlled. There's a reason a lot of these activists are in jail for murder. They keep shooting cops. Normal activists generally choose to make their case by displaying a higher ethical posture. My fave is [[Henry David Thoreau]], who meekly submitted to arrest and then wrote "[[Civil Disobedience]]". --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 13:43, 20 March 2010 (EDT)
:Not just "communist," but "Maoist." That's where much confusion sets in; User:Radh helped out immensely the other day on [[William Ayers]] reminding that the [[WUO]] spinoff of [[SDS]] occured precisely because of the break between SDS and the Soviet funded CPUSA. [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 13:48, 20 March 2010 (EDT)
:Not just "communist," but "Maoist." That's where much confusion sets in; User:Radh helped out immensely the other day on [[William Ayers]] reminding that the [[WUO]] spinoff of [[SDS]] occured precisely because of the break between SDS and the Soviet funded CPUSA. [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 13:48, 20 March 2010 (EDT)
==Movement vs organization==
This document, [http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf] from [[Van Jones]]'s STROM, ''Standing Together to Organize a Rvolutionary Movement'' (another Maoist organization) may be of some help. While it should be read in its entirety, sample a passage such as this from page 10 pdf:
:*The organizations early work was to be based inlow-income communities of color and also to recognize the centrral role of youth in movements for social change....As STORM was getting off the ground as an orgainzatiopn, it members remained deeply involved in their current movement work....Members were active in many sectors of the movement - from the women 's movement to the labor movement to the [[community-organizing]] world to the direct action movmement." [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 14:39, 20 March 2010 (EDT)