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The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
Rall, Ted
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/24/the-womens-march-was-a-dismal-failure-and-a-hopeful-sign/Date Written: 2017-01-24 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20425 Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him? Abstract: - Excerpt: The New Left was the last organized left-wing mass movement in American history. Since the organized Left collapsed in the early 1970s, we've seen other moments like Saturday, indications that there are Americans, tens of millions of them, whose politics fall to the left of the fake-left Democratic party and the lockstep center-right corporate media apparatus that props up it and its "rival" Republican brand. Signs that this Left-in-waiting really exists belie the party line that there's no market for hammers-and-sickles in the good ol' U.S.A. Subject Headings |