What a Medicare March Could Do
Decades of history has shown us what a national march can accomplish.
Anti-war protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C.Leena A. Krohn / Wikimedia
A waste of time, money, and energy. Boring. Ineffective.
These arguments against national protest marches appear whenever an organization calls for a major mobilization. On cue, they resurfaced following Dustin Guastella’s proposal in Jacobin for a national Medicare-for-All march.
The Left has deployed this tactic for the past one hundred years, and we should acknowledge that it doesn’t produce direct change.
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