Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of discussing how people can fight against the war, the CP presents lists of nice-sounding wishes. People should not be drafted for unjust wars, the CP says, just as the unemployed should have jobs. If they are drafted, they should not have to fight. Apprentices ought to be exempt, VISTA workers ought to be exempt. Peace Corpsmen shouldn't have to go. The CP program sounds like an appeal for special interest groups...
...issues that must concern real Communists (because they concern everyone who wants to fight against this war) are nowhere concretely discussed: the economic and political nature of the war, its importance to the bourgeoisie and the government, its probable future, the kind of movement that needs to be built to serve the American people in opposing the war, the weaknesses and divisions which presently hold back that movement...
...meets the situation passively with the notion of disengagement from the "military industrial complex" (i.e., American society)--a clear impossibility for the vast majority of Americans, including students. Reduced to its essence, the CP's argument runs: if everyone were exempt, there would be no soldiers to fight the war. There is a Yiddish retort to such wishful thinking. It goes: "And if your grandmother were a trolley car...." And the question still remains: how do we unite Americans from different classes in a strong movement to get the U.S. our of Vietnam...
...will expand the war. The more it fights, however, the more it will stimulate armed, revolutions of the oppressed, the more it will have to fight. Simultaneously, long death lists, high prices and people learning about the clear injustice of the war can expand the anti-war movement with the war. The U.S. is not, in any case, playing for small stakes in Vietnam. It will not be forced out easily...
...people may be unfriendly. You won't be paid anything. You probably won't accomplish much either. But..." There was always a but. Already I had two images: Kurtz paddling his lonely canoe up the river, and Churchill enumerating all the obstacles to victory and pledging a fight to the finish. I told myself: "It may be tough, and I won't surrender either...