Comments on: Letter in Support of a Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/07/15/letter-in-support-of-a-black-reconstruction-in-new-orleans-and-the-gulf-coast/ Making the Connections Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Comandante Gringo http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2006/07/15/letter-in-support-of-a-black-reconstruction-in-new-orleans-and-the-gulf-coast/#comment-19368 Comandante Gringo Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:14:49 +0000 http://feralscholar.org/blog/?p=327#comment-19368 Right after the Katrina atrocity, wasn't Eric Mann the first to come up with a plan? I myself have been trying to work on and off with people on trying to get a NOLA fightback support going -- but frankly, most on the U.S. Left are IMO politically incompetent. They simply do not see -- nor do they seem to care too much, frankly -- that NOLA is the frontline of the class-struggle today. Which is not the same thing as saying it is the only front of that struggle -- just the strategic one. We're waiting on some leadership here -- `cause most on the Left simply aren't going to figure it out on their own, and that's a fact. And a lot of the rest aren't in a position to provide that leadership. I heartily suggest that we systematically tie the NOLA struggle into all the other struggles currently being undertaken in isolation -- like immigrant rights for instance. Not to mention linking up with the Revolution in América Latina -- starting with the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Right after the Katrina atrocity, wasn’t Eric Mann the first to come up with a plan? I myself have been trying to work on and off with people on trying to get a NOLA fightback support going — but frankly, most on the U.S. Left are IMO politically incompetent. They simply do not see — nor do they seem to care too much, frankly — that NOLA is the frontline of the class-struggle today. Which is not the same thing as saying it is the only front of that struggle — just the strategic one.

We’re waiting on some leadership here — `cause most on the Left simply aren’t going to figure it out on their own, and that’s a fact. And a lot of the rest aren’t in a position to provide that leadership.

I heartily suggest that we systematically tie the NOLA struggle into all the other struggles currently being undertaken in isolation — like immigrant rights for instance. Not to mention linking up with the Revolution in América Latina — starting with the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.

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