This below from David Harris’ “Dreams Die Hard” seems crucial.
Although I was not privy to them at the time, other conversations of Dennis’s after his return from Washington made it apparent that his enthusiasm for The Resistance strategy was waning. The idea, he said, had been to break the peace movement out of its passivity; now, however, getting people to send back draft cards was no longer an appropriate response to either the task or the opportunities of the moment. The entire course of the Sixties would be littered with strategies that had been given six months to succeed and then abandoned for something a notch more obstreperous, and this was such a moment of discard for Dennis Sweeney. He thought “the movement” had to escalate even further.
(Harris, 1982:215)
Of course, there are other dangers, – of persisting with a “strategy” (often no more than a bundle of favoured repertoires, repeated ad nauseam) because to back down would be to lose face, or expose those who had devised the “strategy” to criticism. Or because it would force you to learn new tricks, and you don’t want to do that/can’t do that, and it is easier to sit in the smugosphere, understanding the political economy of activist credibility tokens and finding your place in it… But that is for another time perhaps.
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Marc, your comments of the last few days indicates that without doubt nothing really changes. Peoples priorities are partner, children, a full tummy, dry bed and a leak free roof. As a result, a certain class of person (politicians) have to create ‘interest’ using the well tried and true methods, fear, greed and anger, you can throw in religion if you desire.
Until such time as people can be encouraged to think beyond the politically contrived divisions, sadly nothing will ever change. I have long believed education was the answer, but sadly education seems to be being wound back!