"Fatally flawed from the inside" how valid is this argument against the Chartist movement?

... "Fatally flawed from the inside" how valid is this argument against the Chartist movement? The Chartists were not fatally flawed from the inside, because they did not fail. The fact that none of they're six political objectives were never met within their lifetime just displays how troublesome and intolerant external really conditions were. However, There were major internal dilemmas that hindered the progress of the Chartists such as a lack of co-ordination, the Chartists' image of violence and the forged signatures for the national petition for reform. Only recently has the sovereignty and effectiveness of Chartism been re-evaluated, previous historians have dismissed the Chartism movement as simply being a political mob, as R.G. Gammage said in 1854 "He had no wish for that body to be anything more than a mob". This illustrates how quickly an ex-chartist leader was to criticize the movement he was once heavily involved in himself! To see

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