Commentary: 'Revolution Anyone?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While perusing the manifesto of this now defunct STORM, several things struck me as particularly interesting. There was of course the passionate commitment to Marxist ideals, radical feminism, gay lesbian and transgender liberation and the ardent support of the unrepentant murderer Mumia Abu Jamal. And there was this rather innocuous looking paragraph, which I found especially fascinating.

"Storm had a closed membership. People could not just decide to join whenever they wanted to. Instead the group invited small classes of activists to become new members. This insured more consistency and accountability within the membership. It also allowed the group to maintain its strict demographic quota requirements; each class was required to be 75% people of color and 60% women."

Given their expressed passionate commitment to revolution, I was surprised to discover that they would sacrifice principle on the alter of race and gender. If revolution is what one truly desires - a revolution that will deliver "true freedom for our people" - shouldn't that include liberty from being categorized by race and/or gender? Isn't a shared ideology – shared principles - more important than quotas? These of course are people living in the United States bemoaning the collapse of the Soviet Bloc so rationality may be too much to ask. It may also be one reason this group or Marxist revolutionaries never saw their membership increase beyond perhaps a dozen or so members.'