Just a thought

[Jurriaan Bendien <j.bendien@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the figures given by John Metz are anything to go by, then I would say
at a rough guess that there are something like 32650 "organised"
leftwingers in the USA or one "organised" leftwinger per 6400 adults in the
USA in rough figures (or about one organised leftwinger per 3200 households
or so). I am tempted to calculate how long it would take them to overtake
the US Democratic Party if each leftwinger, instead of fighting the other
leftwingers, persuaded just one new adult to join them who is not already a
member of another leftwing group. However I cannot quickly locate a recent
membership figure for the Democrats, and in any case Metz's figures seem to
exclude the Labor Party which is good for 10,000 members or so. So I am
probably some way off from an accurate or valid count. Any takers for some
accurate figures ?

When you start to look at the quantitative picture like that, it seems
rather silly and puberal to denounce Anderson or Brenner for their
lecturing ability. Anybody who is seriously interested in the growth of
American socialism would presumably argue we need more Andersons and more
Brenners, and for that purpose denouncing them is not going to help !

Just a thought,

Jurriaan




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