I'd personally go with your initial instinct: to fight for or even prefer a "good defeat" over a "bad victory" is to capitulate in advance. A mistake that many on the left, and the Black left in particular, made previously and that may now prove impossible to undo.
I'd personally go with your initial instinct: to fight for or even prefer a "good defeat" over a "bad victory" is to capitulate in advance. A mistake that many on the left, and the Black left in particular, made previously and that may now prove impossible to undo.